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Huawei Attends CeBIT 2017 with 100 Partners to Advance Digital Transformation
HANNOVER, Germany, March 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/InfoQuest
Leading New ICT, The Road to Digital Transformation
At CeBIT 2017 from March 20 to 24, 2017, Huawei is joining hands with 100 partners to exhibit ICT strategies and solutions under the theme of “Leading New ICT, The Road to Digital Transformation”. In a booth of over-3500 square meters located at C30 in Hall 2 of the Hannover Exhibition Center, Huawei is demonstrating innovative ICT and solutions across business, technology, and ecosystem exhibition areas, and is sharing digital transformation best practices and methodologies to help global customers and partners advance their digital businesses.
Photo caption: Huawei joined hands with 100 partners to exhibit at CeBIT 2017
Huawei Enterprise Business Group’s strategy and goals are aligned with CeBIT 2017’s theme of “d!conomy – no limits”, providing decision-makers with guidance on economic and public management, digital society, and digital transformation.
Platform and Ecosystem, Two Driving Forces on the Road to Digital Transformation
Huawei’s enterprise business is based on a deep understanding of industry digital transformation, and the company unveiled its “Platform + Ecosystem” strategy at the tradeshow.
Yan Lida, President of Huawei Enterprise Business Group, said: “Huawei’s business positioning is focused on being the best partner to enable a digital society, intelligent social development, and industry digital transformation. We propose a ‘platform + ecosystem’ strategy which is based on large investments in new technologies, such as cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, mobile broadband and SDN, to create an open, flexible, secure and agile ICT infrastructure platform. By building a win-win ecosystem and collaborating extensively with partners we are helping customers achieve success in digital transformation.”
At the CeBIT Global Conferences CEO Keynote, Diana Yuan, President of Marketing and Solutions Sales Department, Huawei Enterprise Business Group, said: “Our ‘Platform’ emphasizes cloud-pipe-device synergy, while our ‘Ecosystem’ is customer-centric and focuses on creating a mutually beneficial environment for sustainable development. Huawei implements the ‘Platform + Ecosystem’ strategy and works closely with customers and partners to help them embrace the digital era by leveraging the solid and rich experiences and capabilities gained from our own digital transformation.”
At CeBIT 2017, Huawei is launching the Global OpenLab Program to promote implementation of the “Platform + Ecosystem” strategy. This Program will bring together leading business partners to build capabilities to innovate industry-specific solutions, providing the building blocks of an ICT ecosystem that powers the future smart society. Huawei plans to set up a further 15 OpenLabs in the following three years, with a total investment of USD 200 million. By the end of 2019, there will be a total of 20 OpenLabs worldwide.
“Business”, “Technology”, and “Ecosystem”: Demonstrating New ICT Infrastructure with 100 Partners
Huawei’s “Business”, “Technology”, and “Ecosystem” exhibition areas at CeBIT 2017 demonstrate innovative ICT products, solutions, and success stories.
The “Business” exhibition area demonstrates Huawei’s solutions that enable customers’ digital transformation and highlights success stories in seven industries, including smart city, finance, manufacturing, electric power, transportation, media, and ISP. The “Technology” exhibition area demonstrates Huawei’s new ICT infrastructure based on “cloud-pipe-device” synergy. The infrastructure integrates seven core technologies, including IoT (with security), open cloud, data center infrastructure, all-cloud-based networks (with security), cloud communications, enterprise wireless, and services. The entire booth showcases the results of Huawei’s cooperation with 100 partners, including leading companies such as SAP, Accenture, Infosys, T-Systems, KUKA, Hexagon, Thales, Alstom and Siemens, to construct a sustainable ecosystem together.
Joint Announcements of Major Partnerships and Sharing of Digital Transformation Methods and Practices
Over one-third of the Fortune 500 companies have chosen Huawei as their digital transformation partner and over 40% of these companies rank as the world’s top 100. At CeBIT 2017, Huawei and leading industry partners will announce joint solutions and share success stories, including:
In the smart city arena, Huawei and Veolia are jointly rolling out a Storm Water and Flood Management Solution based on NB-IoT to scientifically set up emergency measures. In addition, Huawei and Frequentis are jointly developing an open ecosystem for public safety solutions to enable safer cities. Huawei and Honeywell are also jointly launching a smart building solution that enables intelligent management of buildings and reduce energy consumption.
In the finance industry, Accenture will share a financial Big Data solution based on Huawei’s Big Data platform. Huawei and Infosys are jointly launching the Finacle@Kunlun solution to help banks reconstruct IT infrastructure and upper-layer applications.
In the energy industry, Huawei is joining hands with SAP to release an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) solution. With the joint efforts of State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company, Huawei is unveiling a wireless dedicated power network solution to help power companies implement automated power distribution and intelligent metering.
In the transportation industry, Huawei and transportation industry technology solutions provider Indra is signing a global cooperation MOU to jointly develop end-to-end transportation ICT solutions.
In the media industry, Huawei and Sony are jointly rolling out a Serial Digital Interface (SDI) matrix IP solution to develop global radio and television companies broadcast vehicles and mobile video systems.
In the public cloud area, customers that are using the Open Telekom Cloud jointly developed by Huawei and Deutsche Telekom will share the latest applications of the solution – the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will share its experience of applying the Open Telekom Cloud in the Helix Nebulae Science Cloud project; German lighting system manufacturer SLV is announcing that it will deploy an IoT platform based on the Open Telekom Cloud and launch smart home projects.
In the future, Huawei will continue to build a sustainable ecosystem and invest in industry and commercial alliances, the open source community, and developer platforms.
For more information of Huawei at CeBIT 2017, please visit at http://e.huawei.com/topic/cebit2017-en/index.html
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider.
For more information, please visit Huawei online at http://www.huawei.com/
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Lady Deathstrike
Lady Deathstrike as seen in X-Men: Messiah Complex.
Art by Simone Bianchi.
As Yuriko Oyama:
Daredevil #197 (August 1983)
As Lady Deathstrike:
Alpha Flight #33 (April 1986)
Dennis O'Neil and Larry Hama,
Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema,
Chris Claremont and Barry Windsor-Smith
In-story information
Yuriko Oyama
Team affiliations
Sisterhood of Mutants
Reavers
Weapon X-Force
Oyama Heavy Industries
Excellent athlete and hand-to-hand combatant
Superhuman strength, speed, agility, and reflexes
Adamantium skeleton and retractable claw nails
Healing factor
Lady Deathstrike (Yuriko Oyama), occasionally spelled "Deathstryke," is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is a foe of the X-Men, especially Wolverine.
Her father Lord Dark Wind created the adamantium-bonding process that was forced on Wolverine by Weapon X. A self-styled warrior, Lady Deathstrike hired the villain Spiral’s "body shoppe" to bond adamantium to her own skeleton in addition to other cyber-genetic enhancements. She has since worked as a mercenary and assassin and feels a need to prove herself by killing Wolverine. Lady Deathstrike is also the sister of Lord Deathstrike. She, along with former X-Men members Mystique, Sabretooth, Domino, Warpath, and Old Man Logan formed a team called Weapon X-Men named after the facility they escaped but later changed to Weapon X-Force after Logan and Warpath left with Omega Red.
A mutant version of Lady Deathstrike, played by Kelly Hu and without any of Deathstrike's backstory, appeared as a brainwashed henchman of William Stryker in the 2003 film X2. She also re-appeared in X-Men: The Official Game, where she was revealed to be Silver Samurai's apprentice.
In 2009, Lady Deathstrike was ranked as IGN's 78th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.[1]
1 Publication history
2 Fictional character biography
3 Powers and abilities
4.1 Amalgam
4.2 Ultimate Marvel
5.3 Video games
Publication history[edit]
This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (December 2012)
She first appeared as Yuriko Oyama in Daredevil #197 and later as Lady Deathstrike in Alpha Flight #33. Yuriko Oyama was created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Larry Hama. Writers Bill Mantlo and Chris Claremont added defining characteristics such as her cyborg abilities, while artist Barry Windsor-Smith designed her cyborg appearance.
Fictional character biography[edit]
Yuriko's second costume
Yuriko Oyama was born in Osaka, Japan. Her father was Lord Dark Wind (Kenji Oyama), a Japanese crime lord and criminal scientist who created the process by which adamantium can be bonded to bone. Kenji was a former Japanese kamikaze pilot during World War II. His face was horribly scarred in a failed suicide attack on an American battleship. Feeling ashamed by his failure decades earlier, he scarred the faces of Yuriko and her two brothers in a ritual design. Her two brothers would later die while in their father's service.
Yuriko teamed up with Daredevil to free her lover, Kiro, from her father's servitude, and to take vengeance on her father for her scarring and the death of her two brothers. She guided Daredevil to Lord Dark Wind's private island in search of Bullseye.[2] When Yuriko slew Lord Dark Wind, the devoted Kiro chose suicide to honor his master.[3]
Distraught, Yuriko belatedly embraced her father's ideals and sought to track down whoever dishonored him and restore Japan's honor. She adopted a costumed identity, as a samurai warrior. She attempted to find Bullseye with an adamantium tracking device, intending to get revenge on him for betraying her father and retrieve the adamantium in his bones for study. Instead, the device led to Wolverine, whose skeleton had also been bonded with adamantium. Deathstrike sought to kill him to right the wrong of the theft of her father's theories and to restore her family's honor; however, she and her followers were defeated by Wolverine and Vindicator of Alpha Flight.[4] She then went to the Mojoverse and sought Spiral's "body shoppe" where she received extensive cybernetic enhancements including adamantium bones and talons. As a cyborg, she became a professional criminal, and joined forces with former Hellfire Club mercenaries-turned-cyborgs Cole, Macon, and Reese. The four cyborgs stalked Wolverine and Katie Power in New York.[5]
Lady Deathstrike — along with Cole, Macon, and Reese — joined the team of criminal cyborgs called the Reavers, led by Donald Pierce. Together, the Reavers captured and crucified Wolverine.[6] Lady Deathstrike was accidentally teleported along with Wolverine and Puck to 1937 Spain. There, she joined forces with a Luftwaffe unit, and battled Wolverine. Her right arm was destroyed by a tank, and when she returned to the present she was given a new right arm.[7] The Reavers gang was broken up by Trevor Fitzroy's Sentinels and most of them were destroyed, though Deathstrike herself survived.[8] She later battled Wolverine and Sabretooth in Times Square.[9]
At times she has resigned her quest to kill Logan and has even worked with the X-Men cooperatively toward a common goal,[10] such as the defeat of Stryfe.[volume & issue needed] In an encounter with Logan shortly after Magneto removed the adamantium from his skeleton, Lady Deathstrike again encounters Puck and Vindicator. The fight with Wolverine destroys much of Vindicator's house and ends when Wolverine reveals his bone claws. As Logan no longer possessed the adamantium stolen from her father, she concluded there was no honor to be gained by killing him. She leaves the premises peacefully.[11] However, she still remains a mercenary and an assassin. Despite all this, Yuriko is set apart from many of the X-Men's foes in that she adheres to an honor code, despite being emotionally disturbed.[volume & issue needed]
When Captain America unexpectedly appears in Japan after a year spent in another dimension, he manages to find Lady Deathstrike working with terrorists. Their goals were to drive American influence out of Japan, by any means possible, including mass murder. Captain America defeats her before any innocent lives are lost.[volume & issue needed]
Lady Deathstrike resurfaced as an ally of William Stryker.[12] She displays a new ability to access the Internet via her cybernetics but this led to her being co-opted and controlled by Mount Haven's computer systems.[volume & issue needed]
Lady Deathstrike was responsible for mutilating and nearly killing Sunfire, whose legs she severed in battle.[volume & issue needed]
Following her confrontation with Rogue and Sunfire, Lady Deathstrike resurfaced as a member of one of the United States government's Army of Thunderbolts in the super hero Civil War, temporarily released from prison in order to go after the Secret Avengers, who resisted the Superhuman Registration Act. She fights alongside other criminals such as Venom, Jester, Bullseye, Jack O'Lantern, Taskmaster, and Songbird.[13] She participates in the final battle of the Civil War in Times Square, New York City, before being sent to the Negative Zone Prison.[14]
Lady Deathstrike returns during the Messiah Complex story to play an important role in the series, facing off against X-23.[15] This was confirmed by IGN Comics, who, in their editorial analysis "13 Days of Messiah Complex," revealed that Deathstrike would be leading a new team of Reavers throughout the event.[16] As reported, Lady Deathstrike appears alongside the Reavers, now made up of nameless Purifiers with armor and weapons instead of any former members.[17] Having allied with the Purifiers to destroy mutant-kind, Lady Deathstrike leads the new Reaver team against the New X-Men, gravely wounding Hellion in the process. Her armor was destroyed by X-23 and Rockslide. She appears again in pursuit of Cable and the mutant newborn[18][19] where she battled X-Force and X-23 again and X-23 nearly kills her.[volume & issue needed]
Lady Deathstrike is apparently saved from death due to the actions of Spiral, as she is later seen under repair in Spiral's Body Shoppe when Madelyne Pryor approaches Spiral with an invitation of membership in her Sisterhood of Mutants. Despite not originally being approached to join the Sisterhood, Lady Deathstrike accepts Pryor's offer nonetheless.[20] It appears that while Spiral repaired Lady Deathstrike's body, she also gave her a more submissive personality, as during missions with the Sisterhood, she continually does whatever she is told, while referring to Spiral as "Mistress".[21] After the Sisterhood resurrects Psylocke, they finally make their move on the X-Men, with Lady Deathstrike being tasked to take down Wolverine, by piercing his lungs.[22] Lady Deathstrike kept Wolverine busy while the Sisterhood raided his room for one of his most treasured possessions: a lock of Jean Grey's hair.[23]
Lady Deathstrike later reappeared with the Reavers. Still driven for revenge against Wolverine, Lady Deathstrike worked with the Reavers to suicide-bomb Utopia. However, when X-Force intervened, Lady Deathstrike escaped her body via Internet.[24]
During the Ends of the Earth storyline, Lady Deathstrike was seen in one of Doctor Octopus's facilities in Australia. When Kangaroo II enters this facility, Lady Deathstrike ambushes and kills him in one swift swipe from her claw.[25]
Lady Deathstrike and the Reavers are later seen in the Core, an underground city populated by robots. She does battle with Captain Britain after the Secret Avengers arrive in the city in search of Ant-Man.[26]
Lady Deathstrike's consciousness was later uploaded in the body of Ana Cortes, establishing a symbiotic relationship with Ana's consciousness. Cortes was a teenage Latin female that has returned to Bogota, Colombia from boarding school after the death of her father to inherit her deceased father's kingdom. She then traveled to the Jean Grey Academy alongside her friend Reiko to find Karima Shapandar and retrieve the Omega Sentinel technology. Deathstrike and her team see her jogging with Monet, and attempt to ambush them. During the confrontation, Karmina is shot, and Monet manages to protect her temporarily, until Monet gets caught off guard. Before Deathstrike could finish her attack, Karmina shoots, and injures Lady Deathstrike causing her to retreat to regroup and get more intel. She then learns of Arkea, and has hired Typhoid Mary to help her achieve this goal.[27] Deathstrike and Typhoid Mary argue with John Sublime about Arkea and they manage to get information out of him that there was more than one piece of Arkea that was alive, as the one they had was dead and not viable. Mary knocks Sublime unconscious and she and Deathstrike manages to escape before Psylocke comes to check on Sublime. Deathstrike and Mary makes their way to Troms, Norway, where they find Amora, who has been exiled by Thor and stripped of her powers.[28] Deathstrike promises Amora that she will make her powerful once again. Amora brings Deathstrike and Mary to where the Arkea meteorite is located when Mary wants to renegotiate the terms of her hire and want to become partners. Deathstrike says it was not just a partnership, but the formation of a new Sisterhood of Mutants. With the live Arkea taking possession of Reiko, she empowers Deathstrike, Mary and Amora. Deathstrike and her Sisterhood manage to escape the X-Men and Monet with Arkea activating several sentinels under the ocean.[29] The mental conflict between Ana and Yuriko made Lady Deathstrike increasingly unstable. Ana Cortes grew to regret her life as a supervillain and did not like the direction Arkea was leading the Sisterhood. She notified the X-Men of the Sisterhood's location, after she became increasingly concerned about Arkea's bold moves such as having Amora resurrect Selene Gallio, the Black Queen.[30] Ana flipped out and tried to get Typhoid Mary to kill her, but Mary refused. Upon Arkea asking Ana to come be a part of the procedure to resurrect Madelyne Pryor, Ana killed herself to prevent Arkea from using her further.[30] Ana's death didn't stop Arkea's plans. Arkea simply removed Yuriko's consciousness from Ana's body and placed it in Reiko's body along with Arkea's own. Ana's body was spliced with Jean Grey's DNA in order to enable it to host Madelyne Pryor's consciousness. Amora then completed the resurrection of Madelyne Pryor. After the X-Men's confrontation with the Sisterhood, Karima leaves the X-Men to team up with Sabra and investigate the Cortes crime family. Though Arkea was destroyed by the X-Men, Lady Deathstrike's consciousness remained intact inside Reiko's body.[31]
The Reavers later arrived in Killhorn Falls with Lady Deathstrike and attempt to hunt down Logan for good.[32] As the Reavers attacked Killhorn Falls, Old Man Logan single-handedly killed all the Reavers soldiers and confronted Lady Deathstrike before saving Maureen. After being wounded multiple times, Logan manages to defeat Lady Deathstrike, as she started limping away when Logan blacked out. Thinking that he failed to protect Maureen from the chaos, Logan decided to set-off to find Lady Deathstrike.[33]
While in hiding during the "Weapons of Mutant Destruction" storyline, Lady Deathstrike is discovered and captured by the new Weapon X. While held in their captivity, she is experimented on.[34] This experiment led to her nanotechnology being used in their creation of Weapon H.[35]
During the "Hunt for Wolverine" storyline, Lady Deathstrike is seen at Chester's Bar where she tells Daken and Sabretooth about what the Reavers discovered when they went after Wolverine and that he has recently been sighted alive. The three of them go on the trail of Wolverine where they arrive in Maybelle, Arizona.[36] Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike continue searching Maybelle for Wolverine when they are attacked by zombies made from those at a birthday party. One of them bites Sabretooth as Lady Deathstrike gets him away from the zombies. Both of them wonder where the zombies came from. As they get to their car, it suddenly explodes. Sabretooth starts running and finds that his zombie bite is not healing. Sabretooth comes across more zombies as he starts killing them with Lady Deathstrike not far behind him. Both of them take refuge in a garage.[37] When Daken catches up to them, Lady Deathstrike and Sabretooth are informed of a glowing green device in the power station that has to do with the zombies and they must fight their way past the zombies to destroy it before Maybelle is burned to the ground. While fighting zombies and Soteira Killteam Nine, Lady Deathstrike discovers that one of the soldiers from Soteira Killteam Nine is a zombified version of her father who stabs Lady Deathstrike.[38] Lady Deathstrike recovers and continues her fight with her father until Lord Dark Wind cuts off her left hand. Using her right hand, Lady Deathstrike stabs her father in the neck. Then she does the same thing to a zombified Graydon Creed. After telling Sabretooth that the adamantium they tracked was her father's adamantium and learning that Daken is dead, Lady Deathstrike accompanies Sabretooth to where the glowing device is and destroy the device before Maybelle can be burned to the ground. The next day, Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike carjack someone outside a diner as Sabretooth suggests to Lady Deathstrike to have her Reaver friends get her a new hand. Lady Deathstrike tells Sabretooth to shut up and drive.[39]
Powers and abilities[edit]
Lady Deathstrike was transformed into a cyborg by Spiral and the "Body Shop" using alien technology of Mojo's dimension,[40] with later modifications by Donald Pierce.[volume & issue needed] She has superhuman strength, speed, stamina, durability, and agility. Deathstrike's skeleton has been artificially laced with molecules of adamantium, rendering her skeletal structure physically unbreakable. Later, in the pages of Uncanny X-Men, it was shown that Spiral used magic to infuse the metal into Deathstrike's body.[volume & issue needed] Deathstrike's fingers have been replaced by five 12-inch (300 mm) long adamantium claws replacing each finger of each hand. Aside from being as indestructible as her skeleton, these talons are capable of slicing through virtually any substance, other than adamantium itself and Captain America's shield. She is capable of telescoping these claws to twice their usual length. She also had the ability to interface with computers, allowing direct data access to her brain's memory centers. Although her normal form is visibly that of a cyborg, she uses disguises when necessary. She is a trained assassin and is skilled in a variety of Asian martial arts. Lady Deathstrike is especially skilled with swords, and while she prefers stealth and subtlety in her killings, she is emotionally disturbed and this interferes with her effectiveness. Deathstrike suffers from mental instability; she is an unbalanced fanatic, a condition worsened by her transformation into a cyborg.[volume & issue needed]
Before she received her cybernetic enhancements, Deathstrike used a special five-foot steel katana that was electromagnetically tempered and sheathed in energy.[3] The energy sheath enabled the sword to cut through most substances and made it as resilient as adamantium. She has also used shuriken, nunchakus, a high-powered long-range blaster which fires armor-piercing explosive bullets, and wrist-bands containing adamantium detectors. She also wore a modified traditional Japanese battle-armor which could withstand even superhuman blows.[3] Her items were constructed by weapon-smiths of Lord Dark Wind's organization.[volume & issue needed]
Deathstrike later received an upgrade that provides her with a kind of "cybernetic healing factor" that functions similarly, although not as efficiently, to Wolverine's.[41]
Lady Deathstrike is fluent in both English and Japanese, and an accomplished pilot of various air and sea-craft.[volume & issue needed]
The left side of Yuriko Oyama's face was scarred in a ritual design by her father; this was apparently surgically repaired when she became a cyborg.[40]
Lady Deathstrike's original body was destroyed. She became a digital consciousness. She was downloaded into Ana Cortes, who became her host and the new Lady Deathstrike until Ana killed herself.[42] Yuriko's mind was placed into the body of her friend Reiko, who currently hosts her.[31]
Other versions[edit]
Cover to Ultimate X-Men #60.
Art by Stuart Immonen.
Amalgam[edit]
In the Amalgam Comics universe, Lady Deathstrike was merged with Talia al Ghul of DC Comics and became Lady Talia.[citation needed] She was the lover of Logan Wayne aka Dark Claw, but swore revenge when Dark Claw murdered her father, Ra's Al-Pocalypse, to prevent him from unleashing a deadly chemical on the world.[volume & issue needed] She became cybernetically enhanced and ambushed Dark Claw in his cave after tying up his sidekick, the Sparrow.[volume & issue needed] In a choice between love and revenge, she nearly murders Logan, but his healing factor allows him to recover from the injury.[43]
Ultimate Marvel[edit]
Lady Deathstrike has also appeared in Ultimate Marvel's Ultimate X-Men line. There, her connection lies mainly with Storm, instead of Wolverine as in the original storyline. As Yuriko (or 'Yuri'), she taught Storm how to hotwire vehicles and be a car thief. The two later had a falling out, and Yuri ended up being run over by a truck. Yuri survived, but needed to use a wheelchair. There, Dr. Cornelius of Weapon X offered to have her shattered body rebuilt with adamantium, extendable claws, and an accelerated healing factor based on Wolverine's DNA, which would allow her to have her revenge against Storm, though if she wanted to kill Storm she would have to kill Storm's friend Wolverine as well. Yuri agreed, and underwent the modifications. She later went after Storm and Wolverine, but was defeated, and later imprisoned by S.H.I.E.L.D..[44]
While imprisoned at the Triskelion, she encountered the X-Men Dazzler and Angel (who were out searching for their friends, elsewhere in the base). After Dazzler taunted Yuri, saying how Storm had mentioned her to them, the power went out, allowing Yuri to escape her cell and stab Dazzler through the stomach. Before she could do anything else, the mutant Longshot (another prisoner at the Triskelion) snapped Yuri's neck.[45] Whether or not this attack killed her is unknown. She has previously survived being struck by lightning and smashed by a falling tree.[volume & issue needed] Dazzler survived Yuri's attack, remaining in a coma for a few weeks before awakening.[volume & issue needed]
In other media[edit]
Lady Deathstrike on the X-Men animated series.
Lady Deathstrike appeared in the two-part X-Men episode "Out of the Past" voiced by Jane Luk,[46] and Tasha Simms.[citation needed] She had a romantic relationship and past with Wolverine. Yuriko Oyama joined the Reavers and became a cyborg in order to avenge the death of her father Professor Oyama who she believed was killed during Logan's rampage at the Weapon X headquarters.
Kelly Hu as Lady Deathstrike in X2 (2003).
Lady Deathstrike was portrayed by the actress Kelly Hu in the film X2 released in 2003. This version of Lady Deathstrike (never referred to by name) is not portrayed as a cyborg (although the DVD booklet refers to her as being cybernetically enhanced), but as a brainwashed mutant with regenerative abilities similar to those of Wolverine. This version of Lady Deathstrike also demonstrates superhuman strength in the film, throwing Wolverine across a room with enough force to shatter a concrete wall. She wears a grey suit in the film for a period before wearing a leather suit during the remainder of the film. In the film, she is William Stryker's brainwashed mutant assistant. She was also involved in the same government program as Wolverine called Weapon X giving her adamantium claws that extend from the tip of her fingernails, instead of from her knuckles, giving her five claws on each hand rather than Wolverine's three. On Stryker's orders, Deathstrike ambushed and successfully captured both Cyclops and Professor Xavier. Although she is portrayed as a supervillainness in the film, her actual orientation and origin are unclear because she is under the effects of mind control. After a fight with Wolverine that takes place in the laboratory where Wolverine underwent his own transformation, Wolverine disabled Deathstrike with a fluid adamantium injection, presumably killing her.
Lady Deathstrike makes an appearance as an antagonist in the "Hulk vs. Wolverine" portion of the animated film Hulk Vs, voiced by Janyse Jaud. She is still a cyborg, but is portrayed as an agent of Weapon X, alongside Sabretooth, Omega Red, and Deadpool, collectively known as Team X. They are sent by Prof. Thornton to capture former brain-washed member Wolverine and the Hulk, but once he learns of their true agenda, Logan is able to use Deathstrike's desire to kill him to provoke her into attacking him so that she accidentally stabs Sabretooth behind him, allowing him to escape and rescue the Hulk. In the final battle in the Weapon X facility, the Hulk tears off Lady Deathstrike's cybernetic arms, and she is left in the facility when it implodes.
Video games[edit]
Lady Deathstrike appears as a playable character in X-Men: Next Dimension, voiced by Gwendoline Yeo.[47]
Gwendoline Yeo reprises her role of Lady Deathstrike was also the final boss in the game X2: Wolverine's Revenge.[47] She also mentions her bionic implants and her father (who is possibly the Professor in the game). Lady Deathstrike fights Wolverine on top of the Xenon Building where it was revealed that she was behind the androids of the pilot (voiced by Mayim Bialik), the Army G.I. (voiced by Don Morrow), and May Deuce (also voiced by Mayim Bialik) who she used in a plot to kill Wolverine. She also revealed that she paid Sabretooth to cause him pain. Wolverine defeats Lady Deathstrike and reaches a helicopter land platform where she follows him. Wolverine throws Lady Deathstrike off the roof. Sabretooth finds Lady Deathstrike. He takes a vial from her and drinks it (most likely the cure for the Shiva Strain Virus) and carries her body away.
Lady Deathstrike appears as a "boss" in the video game X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, voiced by Kim Mai Guest.[47] She is working with Apocalypse for free when she heard that Wolverine would be partaking in the fight against him. The X-Men and the Brotherhood encounter her on the Genoshan Seawall where the living quarters there have been made into prisons for the Genoshan mutants. If Wolverine is on your team or your active character is an X-Man, you must fight her. If your active character is a Brotherhood member, you have the option of paying her off to leave you alone. Outside of that, she has special dialogue with Wolverine.
Lady Deathstrike appears as an enemy in X-Men: The Official Game (which fills the gap between X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand), voiced by Vyvan Pham.[citation needed] In this video game, it is revealed that Lady Deathstrike had survived the overdose (though the console version offers no explanation for her survival, or how she managed to get the hardened adamantium out of her body, the DS version explains that she was recovered by the Silver Samurai and most of her organs were replaced with artificial ones making her a cyborg like her comic counterpart), and proceeds to battle Wolverine two times in the game. It is also revealed that Lady Deathstrike was an agent of HYDRA and a student of Silver Samurai. She was sent to spy on Stryker, but instead was brainwashed into becoming his bodyguard. Lady Deathstrike's final battle with Wolverine ends when she is crushed under a pile of rubble.
Lady Deathstrike appears as a boss in Wolverine: Adamantium Rage.[citation needed]
Lady Deathstrike appears in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, voiced by Jocelyn Blue.[citation needed] She is among the multiple villains who are being controlled by the Government's Control Nanites to fight the Anti-Registration Heroes. She is also a mini-boss twice in New York when the player chooses to be on the Anti-Registration side: the first is when she is knocked out by Thing, the second is when the heroes on the Anti-Registration side defeat her. She later assists the Thunderbolts and the Pro-Registration side in fighting the Anti-Registration side at Geffen-Meyer Chemicals. During the fight, Lady Deathstrike (alongside Bullseye, Green Goblin, and Venom III) end up attacking S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and setting up bombs when their Control Nanites lose control. In the Prison 42 cutscene, Lady Deathstrike is shown with the other nanite-controlled supervillains attacking both sides. When she is about to deliver the finishing blow on Iron Man, Captain America saves him. In the PSP, PS2 and Wii versions, she fights the heroes in Prison 42 alongside Bullseye.
Lady Deathstrike appears in Strider Hiryu's ending in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.[citation needed]
Lady Deathstrike appears in Marvel Heroes, voiced by Minae Noji.[47]
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Florida Police officer has sex in his patrol car with crash victim
Date: December 29, 2017Author: Ericka Courtney 0 Comments
What an upstanding LEO. I hope it was worth it in the end. The corruption Is real. And he’s a piece of trash because he knows she’s married. And yes, she IS a whore. 😂 girl fucking behind a church? She’s acting like a straight up hooker. Why do married women lose so much respect for themselves when they cheat? They always come off looking like crack heads. I feel sorry for her husband. He wanted to make sure this guy was exposed. Can’t say I blame him.
Port Richey, FL – A Florida Highway Patrol trooper resigned Wednesday in the midst of being investigated for having sex on duty with a crash victim.
The crash victim’s husband, Robert Abruzzese, blew the whistle on the affair after receiving a text message that was sent to his wife’s phone from trooper Scott Maus. The latest sexual arrangement between Maus and the woman occurred in a church parking lot.
NBC 8 reports that Mrs. Abruzzese got into a car accident on December 8 on Date Palm Boulevard in Port Richey and Maus was the responding officer to the scene where four people went to the hospital for critical injuries. But in a strange twist, Maus offered to follow Mrs. Abruzzese home to make sure she arrived safely.
Once at Mrs. Abruzzese’s house, Maus exchanged numbers with her. Within days, flirtatious text messages began to erupt between the two.
On December 20, Maus and Mrs. Abruzzese met at the Magnuson Hotel on Highway US-19 for sex. Maus was reportedly off-duty on this occasion.
But then on December 21, Mrs. Abruzzese and Maus had sex in the back of a church parking lot inside of Maus’s patrol car while he was on duty.
On December 22, Maus sent a text message to Mrs. Abruzzese’s phone saying,
“‘So, do you like being my little whore for a trooper?’
But to Maus’s surprise, Mr. Abruzzese had his wife’s phone at the time and replied to the text saying, “I don’t know, let me ask your supervisor.”
In a previous exchange with Mrs. Abruzzese, Maus wrote, “I love your hair and that dress. It really shows off your curves.”
Mrs. Abruzzese responded, “You look hot in your uniform. I would love to see you with the hat on too.”
Maus then tried to even things over by offering to get Abruzzese out of traffic tickets via this text message:
“I am very and truly sorry for what happened and my part in it. I can assure you I do not want to cause you any more problems and will cease all contact with her immediately. Everything will be deleted and erased. On a side note I can get you out of traffic tickets.”
Abruzzese confronted his wife about the text messages, and it was then that she admitted to having sex with Maus in his patrol car while he was on-duty.
Florida Highway Patrol released this statement:
“The Florida Highway Patrol takes all complaints very seriously. The Trooper has tendered his resignation which was accepted effective immediately. A thorough administrative investigation will continue to be conducted by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles’ Office of Inspector General.”
When Mr. Abruzzese first contacted Florida Highway Patrol, they didn’t take his complaint seriously and blew him off. It was not until Mr. Abruzzese contacted the Florida Governor and a state representative that Florida Highway Patrol reached out to Mr. Abruzzese.
The Abruzzeses’ have been married for 15 years.
FL - A Florida Highway Patrol trooper resigned Wednesday in the midst of being investigated for having sex on duty with a crash victim.Port RicheyRobert AbruzzeseScott Maus Florida highway patrol officer sex in patrol vehicle
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A Gathering of Clowns by LongDarkRoad Chapter 3 Silence Is The Virtue Of Fools
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A Gathering of Clowns
By LongDarkRoad
Chapter 03 Silence Is The Virtue Of Fools
Drew Downing stood, waiting awkwardly, just inside the entrance of the ‘library’; a room that was perfectly suitable for intimate discussions; like the sort Emily had planned.
Downing did not know why he felt as he did around Emily; it had been that way from the time she was a teenager and he and Melanie had been married for several years. The girl had always been so good-looking that only the most confident could feel at ease around her. You couldn’t go anywhere with her, even as a teenager, without dealing with the stares and attention of complete strangers.
Adding to this was Emily’s attitude; even at eight, when Downing first met her, she was a precocious child. By the time she was a teen, she had developed a studied air of world weariness that cloaked her in persistent disdain. One, if one were an average person, always felt exceedingly boring whenever one was around this girl. It was not that she was truly rude; she was simply dismissive. Being rude would require effort; she simply disregarded one and, one ceased to exist in her presence.
That was the way Downing had always felt, and here he was with her, she now an outrageously beautiful young woman exuding a potent sexuality that was palpable; and she was, technically, his ‘boss’. Could anything be more daunting? He was about to find out.
Helena, Montana; 1975
Bufford Hawkins came into the kitchen of the family home and assumed his seat at the head of the table. The family was seated and waiting as was the expectation. Mother Shirley was at the other end, solicitous as always; oldest son Bill, now employed at the Hawkins
chair manufacturing plant, Chrome-tome Furniture, sat at his father’s right hand; Georgia sat across from Bill and beside her was the youngest, Stafford, with his head of blonde hair already worn longer than Father allowed. Melanie would not be born for another year, when her mother was forty.
“I thought you were taking the boy to Joe’s?” Bufford asked in his usual blunt manner. He was a tall man with a military look to him, even though he had never served. John Wayne was his favorite actor and he regarded most other actors and all musicians as homosexual. “He looks like a God-damn hippie.”
Shirley started; the three children focused on their plates. Profanity offended her, especially the use of the Lord’s name. She was careful however not to oppose her husband; she not only desired peace, she also feared him. He had struck her more than once, although always in places that wouldn’t show.
“I’m taking him in tomorrow, dear,” she replied mildly.
“Good, ask Joe to give him a crew cut. And he needs to eat more. Skinny as a God-damn rail.” Bufford spoke as if Stafford wasn’t sitting two feet away, and then began shovelling prime rib and mashed potatoes into his mouth; the discussion was over.
At his place, young Stafford sat quietly chewing, his mind working feverishly. He was imagining sticking his fork into his father’s eye.
“Well, don’t just stand there, come in, Uncle Drew.” Emily spoke in her languid way, a smile on her lips; today unadorned tonight. Downing took three steps in and stood, hesitating. “Your father wished me to speak with you.” Downing murmured.
Emily regarded the man through half-closed eyes. He was one of those slim, wistful fellows; his now thinning hair cut very close; his clean-cut face neither pleasant nor unpleasant. The kind of person you would not remember. What Melanie saw in him Emily could not understand. He was good at numbers, apparently. Well, Emily would see what else he was good at.
“Actually, I wished to speak to you, Drewsie.” Emily spoke with a tone of familiarity that made Downing nervous.
“Yes, right. Sorry” He replied.
Good, thought Emily; he’s apologetic. “You are aware of the share changes at the company?”
He cleared his throat. “Yes, I am.”
“And it means, what; like, to you?”
Drew paused; he wasn’t sure where this was going, but he felt apprehension; and where was Melanie? Why was young Emily running the show? “Well, it means that voting control could sit with you and Melanie, if you chose, or Melanie and her father or you…”
“Fifty-four percent.” Emily said.
“As of today, fifty-four present of the shares are combined between Mel and me. We did another deal; I thought fifty-one was cutting it close.”
Drew nodded his head. “Fine. And, um what, if you could share with me, does this mean, to you?”
Emily sat smiling. “It means I can kick your ass out the door,” she said, quietly.
Downing looked up and opened his mouth to say something, but then closed it, then spoke, “Is that, um, what you want?” he asked nervously.
“That depends, Drewsie.”
There was a pause. The house was quite quiet. Stafford was not home, and Melanie had decided to take Chantico out for dinner; in the end she didn’t want to be there for the first session with her husband. The two occupants of the house watched each other silently in the library. And waited; finally Downing needed to speak. “Depends on what, exactly, Emily?”
Emily stood; she was wearing heels and was almost the same height as her uncle; yet somehow seemed taller. She came to within a few feet of him. “Well, let’s see. One, you will address me as Miss M from this point forward.” She stared at him. “Is that understood?”
Downing licked his lips; they were suddenly very dry. “It seems odd, but none-the-less, no problem, Miss, um, M.” he said in a voice that was now thickening, as if someone was gripping his throat.
“Good. And you will work for me and report directly to me. Clear?”
Downing swayed slightly and touched the back of the couch. “Um, Mr. Hawkins could simply pay me a retainer. I wouldn’t need to be employed by the company.” He said in a quiet voice.
Emily stood and stared at him. “I’m young, Unka’ Drewsie, but I’m not dumb. Sure, work for Daddykins, but it won’t be doing any Documart stuff. That will go to the person I hire tomorrow, right?”
Downing looked down. He and Hawkins had already discussed this scenario; obviously Emily had considered it too. They essentially controlled Documart if they wished, and Downing’s only hope was convincing Melanie to work with Stafford. The fact she wasn’t here tonight wasn’t a good omen.
Melanie and Emily were already working together.
With a smile, Emily placed a set of stapled papers on the back of the couch. A quick glance told Drew they were some sort of legal document; looking more closely and with growing alarm, he read what was clearly divorce papers. “What is this?” he asked in a soft, choked voice.
“I think they call it the other shoe, Drewsie. Those are divorce papers. If you won’t work with us, Melanie will serve them on you and we will not only fire your skinny, worthless ass out the company door, but this one as well.” She slapped him across the face with the papers.
Startled and rattled, Downing blurted out, “Ow; um, Mr. uh, Mr. Ha-Hawkins, w-will never allow that.” Drew protested, but without a lot of conviction.
Emily just smiled and sat down on a chair facing Downing, tapping the papers against her hand. “There is no way to stop us, Drewkins. Well, just one way. Work for me, us, unconditionally.” Emily paused, sitting like a coiled spring, and regarded the man. “Give me your answer; I need to know tonight.” She stared at him.
Feeling light-headed and never a confident person to begin with, Drew nodded his head. “I, um, I’ll work for you, obviously. Does anything change?”
Emily watched him now, standing, swaying slightly, perspiring; twitching. She felt like driving her right foot directly into his balls; but that would have to wait. “Nothing changes at work, but things will change here. I need to know you are, loyal.”
“I have, um, been v-very loyal to Mr. Hawkins all these years. I will be loyal to y-you.”
“Hmmmm,” Emily purred. “So you say. Talk is always easy; Drewsums, actions do speak louder. You’re going to show me.” She paused and dialed a number on her cell, “Come in now,” she said into it, with no other discussion. In a moment two burly men in dark suits entered and stood by the door. “You are just outside?” Emily confirmed.
“Yes, miss,” the nearer one said.
“Good, I’ll call you if I need you.” They turned and left. Emily poured herself a glass of Merlot. “Okee, dokee, Drewsie-woozie, here’s how the play unfolds. You do what I say, obediently, and I send those two nice men away. You resist or fuss or make me unhappy, and they return and haul your ass out and you never set foot in here again. Oh, and they’ll probably punch you a few times, just ‘cuz; you know how it is?”
Swallowing hard, Downing stared like he was in a trance. How was this happening? How could his life become such a mess in so few days?
“What’s it going to be, pussy-boy? My way or the, um, highway?” Emily chuckled.
“What do you, w-want, Miss, uh, M?” Downing asked, looking down. He was now shaking noticeably.
“Strip down to your shorts.” Emily said, evenly.
“W-what?” he asked, eyes bulging.
“Strip. Shorts. You. Stupid?” Emily repeated as if she were addressing a toddler.
“But I….”
“Fuck.” She declared, taking out her cell.
“No,” he screamed. “Please, stop. Ok. Ok. Stop”
Fuck, he’s going to cry, Emily realized with repugnance.
Hands shaking like he had palsy, tears leaking out the corners of his eyes, Downing removed his shirt and tie, and his undershirt (who wears a fucking undershirt, Emily pondered) and then his shoes and trousers, revealing dark socks and grey boxer shorts (of course grey, and boxers…Emily chuckled).
Emily rose, drifting over to stand behind the slouching figure; she pulled his arms behind him (they’re like twigs, Emily thought with disgust), and fastened them with plastic ties. She took something out of a bag lying beside the chair; it was a ball gag that said ‘CUNT’ on it. She wrapped the cord around Downing’s head and shoved the ball into his mouth.
She then pulled down his shorts and stood in front of him, as his member made a feeble attempt at hardening. Emily looked down at Downing’s manhood as he stood shaking with his eyes tightly shut.
“Open your eyes, pussy-boy Troy; that’s my pet name for Drewsie-poo,” she said, running a finger down the side of Downing’s face. “Looks like your little friend wants to play,” she smirked, rubbing her knee into Downing’s groin, eliciting an anguished groan from behind the gag.
While Downing stood shaking, Emily called her ‘security’ and told them they could go. She then went to a wardrobe and pulled out a tripod with a cell phone mounted on it, and placed it in a specific spot. Next she dragged Downing over to stand in front of a straight-back wooden chair which faced the mounted phone.
As he was turned away from her, Emily undressed and took a harness out from under a cushion and tied it on herself, before inserting a modest six-inch black dildo into it. Tugging Downing’s boxers completely off she tossed them away, then spread some gel onto a small, black butt plug and aggressively inserted it into Downing’s unwilling anus, as he struggled and protested with muffled cries; all in vain.
Using a remote she started the video as she sat on the chair and positioned Downing over her erect phallus, pulled out the plug and then forced his hips down, slowly impaling him.
“Move your ass, Jack, or I’ll start doing some nasty things to your balls. This is shoe number three.” Emily threatened, chuckling at her inside ‘joke’; Downing began to move up and down on the dildo, fighting the urge to vomit. After a few minutes of this, Emily positioned her victim for a sideways view and had him lift his leg so the camera/phone could capture the action of his anal sex and his face as she turned it to the stand.
After fifteen minutes Emily decided she’d had enough for her purposes, now, and withdrew her ‘penis’ and pushed Downing to the carpet. Removing the phone from the stand she took out the device’s card and inserted into a thumb drive that then went into the USB port of her laptop. In seconds she had downloaded the video file and sat watching it, a grin on her face.
She called to the huddled figure on the carpet. “Oh man, lookin’ good Boy-toy-Troy, we see your face, we see all the butt action. You look like a regular rump-ranger, fer shure.” She laughed and then dressed, before picking up her glass of wine and strolling over to the man, lying eyes closed beside the chair.
She turned the body slightly with no resistance, opening the legs a touch; then stood, drew back one leg and slammed her foot directly into Downing’s lightly-haired testicles. The body jerked violently and then Downing curled into a fetal positon, the ball gag preventing the vomit’s release.
Emily texted a message to Melanie. “Drew-baby is all ours. Miss M.” Smiley face.
Six year old Stafford Hawkins arrives home from school an hour early due to the monthly staff meeting. He lets himself in and walks through the quiet kitchen, surprised his mother is not there to greet him. Dumping his stuff on a kitchen chair, he begins the hike up the staircase, but pauses part-way up, a sound above him confusing him and making him hesitate. It is a rhythmic thumping sound and then he hears voices, but they are not speaking, just making sounds.
Not knowing why, Stafford continues the rest of the way up as quietly as possible, then moves down the hall to his parents’ room, where the sounds are clearly coming from.
Halting at the door, he sees a naked body bent over the bed; a woman, and behind her a man, his back and legs hairy. The man is moving back and forth against the rear of the woman. Even though he cannot see the woman’s face, Stafford knows it is his mother. He doesn’t know who the man is. He watches in silence as the man becomes more agitated, both people now grunting loudly and crying out.
Stafford stares at the wall and the painting hanging above the bed. It is a painting of a Harlequin by Rodster; it seems to be watching him; calling to him.
Retracing his steps, Stafford goes back downstairs and grabs his jacket and goes outside. He sits on the step, the image burned into his mind; but as he recalls it, the Harlequin’s face becomes his own.
Emily woke to a kiss on the cheek. “Morning, Miss M. It’s time for breakfast, but what am I doing this morning, with, um, him?”
Emily chuckled; how Chantico’s life had been turned upside down. First sex with women, which she was just beginning to be okay with, and then last night, coming home to a naked Drew Downing, tied up and waiting.
Melanie looked almost as astonished as Chantico, but Emily took control and basically laid out the astonishing news; Drew had to pay a debt to her and he would do it by being her slave. That was it. Chantico did not have to ask questions or take part; just do what Emily directed.
So last night Downing had slept on a large dog bed against the wall in Emily’s spacious room, as Chantico and Emily shared her poster bed. The routine this morning would be established and Chantico would be shown her role in all this. At eight o’clock Downing would leave the house as usual; but that would be the only regular aspect. The rest of his time at the house would be as a slave; at least for now. At work he was to provide his usual financial support, talking with Hawkins as needed, but sharing nothing that Emily didn’t want shared. His loyal silence would eventually earn his release.
Melanie wasn’t sure how she felt about this part, but it was happening and she was okay with it; at least for now. She had no real feelings of affection for her companion of fifteen years; she wasn’t sure now that she ever did.
It had really been a marriage to suit Stafford Hawkins.
Ryland Ross sat in one of the two chairs in Stafford Hawkins’s office; Hawkins himself was facing his lawyer; neither wore masks, Ross being the only one treated so. “And what of the house?” Hawkins asked quietly.
“Well, sir, because it was purchased through the company it is listed as an asset and cannot be dealt with, without…approval.” Ross left that statement dangling.
“Meaning Melanie and my daughter.” Hawkins concluded the thought.
“Yes, sir.” Ross nodded his shiny dome.
Hawkins folded his hands on his thin frame; “Well, I guess I can’t toss them out.” The two men sat in silence.
“Have you, considered, em, talking with her, your daughter I mean.” Ross ventured, looking earnestly at the pen set on Hawkins’s desk.
Hawkins surveyed his lawyer; the suggestion had crossed his mind, to be quickly dismissed. “What do you think would be gained from that, from a legal point of view?”
Ross did not propose his thought that meeting face to face with your own kin was natural; that was not a legal opinion. “I believe it would be a show of good faith if this were ever to be brought before, um, authority.”
Hawkins considered. Yes, that actually was something to be considered. “Send Da Costa first; I want a report. Has Downing anything?”
Ross looked intently at a stapler occupying the corner of the desk. “He has not brought anything to me; but I feel the, em, ladies, have kept him well out of the loop, as it were.” He spoke smoothly.
Hawkins nodded; that was his belief as well; Downing wouldn’t be of much use here. “Quite so. Thank you, Ross. Please prompt Da Costa and we will speak tomorrow, or if there is any more action on the shares.”
Ross rose to leave, “Will do. Good day, sir.” Hawkins
nodded in the direction of the departing figure, and then his intercom lit, signalling a call from one of the assistants. It turned out to be Ms. Graves, Da Costa’s associate. “Yes Ms. Graves?” Hawkins spoke into the mic.
“A message, sir, for you to call your sister. Georgia, sir. She called earlier but I’ve waited until Mr. Ross left to inform you.”
“Thank you, Ms. Graves.” He considered for a moment. “Could you contact her now please, and let me know what she’s after?”
“Right away sir.”
Hawkins sat in thought. Family, hummmpff, what good had they ever been to him? Suddenly his intercom lit again and Ms. Graves was back with news that Georgia Allan (nee Hawkins) was on the company line.
Hawkins sat for a moment, then cleared his throat. “Good-day, Georgia,” Hawkins said into the receiver, in his distinctive voice, free of any emotion. It could have been the dry cleaners he was speaking with, not a sister he hadn’t spoken to in over seven years.
“Stafford, so good to hear from you, really. It has been so long.”
“It has,” Hawkins agreed, “how may I assist you?”
“Oh, well, I had called about something. But how are you? How are Melanie and Emily?”
“Everyone here is just tip top, sister. Please, let’s proceed with what you need.”
“You believe I’m calling because I need something?” she asked, a hint of annoyance in her voice. This actually made Hawkins smile.
“That usually is the case, Georgia. I am correct, yes?”
“Well, yes, although I did want a little news. It’s unfortunate our family is so spread apart.”
“Why?” Hawkins asked, still with a voice that betrayed nothing.
Georgia sighed. “Ok, fine, some things never change. Well, it’s just that Tad (Georgia’s second child, Theodore) is in L.A. and looking for financial support. I know he is reluctant to speak with you, but I think he has a promising project on the go. Would it be possible for him to see you at your home?”
Hawkins was just about to say ‘fat chance’ or something to that effect, but instead murmured, “He should come around and speak with Emily. She is expanding her, um, wings, financially so to speak, and two young people might understand each other better than, um, we.”
“Well, thank you, Stafford. Your address remains as before in…”
“Adams Hill, yes, that is correct.”
After a few closing comments the call ended and Hawkins sat with an odd look on his face; this could actually work out, now that he pondered on it. Damn memories, he smiled to himself.
Stafford watched his sister Georgia from the corner of his eye. Now sixteen years old to his twelve, his sister had taken, when their father and older brother were out, to parading around the house in her bra and panties, her developing body on display. Right now she was talking on the house phone, located in the kitchen, and she was sitting, legs parted, by the table.
Stafford could see the dark patch visible in the crotch of her panties and was well aware of what that meant, even if he was generally clueless about social issues, he knew the difference between boys and girls. He himself had just begun getting pubic hair, although his was thin and very light brown. His sister took after their father, with a head of dark brunette hair and clearly a pubic area to match.
Suddenly he looked up to see her staring at him as he was staring at her. She smiled, leaving her legs open invitingly for a moment, before turning to the wall to continue her conversation.
It went that way for almost a year, with her giving him little glimpses of her female ‘attributes’. He actually saw her full breasts, nipples and all, more than once. But there was no touching, except what Georgia did to herself in her room, with thoughts of Stafford’s clear desire making her smile. She had a friend who was doing the same thing with her younger brother. They would compare notes and giggle.
Drew Downing was on his knees, licking the high-heeled boots of his niece. Emily sat on the same straight-back chair she had used the night before. Downing was naked, with a dog’s chain around his neck. Eight wooden clothespins had been attached to the sensitive skin on the underside of his testicles, and Emily would occasionally rub the toe of one boot against them, producing an immediate reaction. Also around Downing’s testicles, and he was made to put it on himself (I ain’t touchin’ your nut sack, Boy-Toy-Troy, Emily had drawled) was a band that wrapped tightly, preventing any ejaculation.
“You’re pretty good at this, Drewsie-poo; I’m thinking you’ve done some boot lickin’ in your time, hmmmm?” Emily chuckled and pulled the choke collar tight for a moment.
Downing was unable to say much one way or the other, with a leather cord tied around his head and through his mouth; he was only able to lick and grunt. “Lickin’ and gruntin’, that’s all widdle Drewsie-woozie Troysie-woyzie can do,” Emily teased, looking over with a smile at Melanie seated on the couch; she was silently watching all of this; an odd look on her face.
(End of Chapter 03)
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5.4 The House of the Faun
Universidad de Yale
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: Houses and Villas at Pompeii
Domestic architecture at Pompeii from its beginnings to the eruption of Vesuvius with emphasis on the development of the domus italica and the Hellenized domus and featuring the House of the Faun and Villa of the Mysteries.
5.1 Introduction and the Ideal Domus Italica 15:29
5.2 Early Pompeian Houses and the Ideal Hellenized Domus 9:41
5.3 Hellenized Houses in Pompeii 13:27
5.4 The House of the Faun 15:29
5.5 Additional Pompeian Houses 12:01
5.6 Villa of the Mysteries 9:32
Diana E.E. Kleiner
Dunham Professor of History of Art and Classics at Yale University
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I want to turn now, to what is surely, the, most important
surviving house, at the city of Pompeii. And this is the famous House of the Faun.
If you have, if you're in Pompeii, and you only have time to see two
houses, you go to the house of the Vettii, and the house of the Faun.
The house of the Faun, as you can see from your
monument list, dates to the Second Century BC for the most part.
And we see a view, a part of Pompeii
over here with a series of houses marked in yellow.
And the reason that I show this to you
is because the House of the Faun is particularly large.
You can see from this plan that it takes up, in fact,
the entire block, of, an, an entire block of the city of Pompeii.
And it is much larger than some of the
others, for example look at the House of the Vettii
It's, it's, almost, it's, it's twice if not larger than that, twice the
size of The House of the Vettii if not even more than that.
So, it's a a very large house clearly no expense was spared either in
accumulating the property and also in enhancing the decor of the house.
If we look at a plan of the House of the Faun we will see without
question that it corresponds and it follows the hellenized domus type.
[COUGH] We enter over here, we see it has a vestibulum,
a vestibulum, a fauces, two celli, one on either side, an atrium,
with an impluvium, the cubicula here on other side, the wings or
the alae, it does have a tablinum, we see it over here.
And then it has two,
two peristyle courts, with columns encircling them, a smaller
one and then a very large one in the back.
Note also while this is on the screen, that there
is a very interesting room that is located over here.
Its a rectangular room, it has a couple of
columns on bases and pilasters, one on either side.
It opens right off the peristyle court and on
the floor of that space which we call the Alexander
exedra, after Alexander The Great, because on the floor of that,
was the most famous mosaic that we have surviving from antiquity
that represents Alexander The Great and I'll show you that momentarily.
First let me show you what the house looks like from the outside.
It's well preserved. It doesn't have its ceiling
the way the House of the Vettii does, but otherwise, it's pretty well preserved.
We're looking down the street on which it finds itself.
You see the polygonal masonry blocks. You see the, the the,
the, you see the sidewalks here as well, and how modern they look.
You see the stepping stones.
And over here the facade of the House of the Faun.
You can see the entrance way, and you can see that the entrance
way has on either side a pilaster.
A pilaster with a Corinthian capital above, and
that's very important because it's announcing to us
as did that ideal hellenized domus that I
showed you before, it's announcing to us that
this is a patron, this is an owner of this particular house who has leanings toward
things Greek and wants us to know that
even before we have entered into the house.
You go into the house and stand in the vestibule you
will see that there's still quite a bit of decoration preserved.
The walls are painted with blocks, with
what looks like blocks of stone, an illusion.
This is an example of first style wall painting.
We're going to talk about that on Thursday, and
then up here a shrine is still preserved.
A shrine that probably held statues or statuettes of some of the household gods,
the revered gods for this family.
This is an excellent view because it shows us again how,
if you were entering this house, you would stand in the vestibule.
You'd go from there into the fauces, then into
the atrium, then into the peristyle that lay beyond.
The first smaller one and then the larger one after that.
But it shows us again, the point that I've made so many times already,
just in the, the, this first part of the semester, and that is this Roman
interest in vista, or panorama.
They've set up a view from the moment in which you enter the house.
A view of sequence of experiences from light, to dark,
to light, to dark, but also a sequence of visual
experiences, that make entering this house and walking through this
house an extraordinary experience, one that they have helped enhance.
And you can also see again the capitals here.
Here's a view of the atrium as it looks today.
We are standing in front of the impluvium.
In that impluvium is a statuette in bronze of
the dancing faun from which this house gets it name.
The one that you see there now is a copy
and the original is in the archaeological museum in Naples.
This view also shows you the way in which you had the
series of visual experiences from the
fauces, to the atrium, and ultimately toward
the peristyle with its wonderful forest of columns
done a la grecque, in the Greek style.
Here's another interesting view.
We're still in the atrium; you can see the dancing faun right here.
We're looking at the side wall if we're facing the faun.
This is the wall to the left.
This is very helpful because it shows us exactly what it, what,
what the, the cubicula that opened off the atrium, would have looked like.
You can see
that they were very dark.
Some of them had these tiny slit windows or perhaps slightly larger slit windows.
But for the most part, they were very dark, again, meant only as a
place to sleep at night and to be used for no other purpose then that.
You can also see from this, this view that this is a rubble wall that has
been stuccoed over u,h and that reliefs, painted
different colors, have been placed on that wall.
This is an example of so-called first
style Roman wall painting, and we'll go into what that was,
define what that was, and discuss it in more detail on Thursday.
This is a wonderful restored view of what the House of the Faun would
have looked like when all of its first style Roman wall painting was intact.
Showing what it would have looked like to stand in the atrium, and
look back through what survived of the tablinum with these very large pilasters.
Again, announcing the Greek leanings of this particular
patron, and then the view to, toward the peristyle
where you would also see the columns that look
like they were very much in the Greek style.
So here's clearly a person who not only is building
his home to correspond to the latest in domestic architecture
- namely the hellenized domus type - but who just
wants to make that point over and over and over again.
That he's cultivated,
that he knows things Greek.
And that he has the, the funds to be able to incorporate those into his house.
And indeed first style wall painting, as we'll find out when we
discuss it, is also a style that is based on Greek prototypes.
So another example of the Greek elements in this building.
What room do you think this is?
I can't, oh, I didn't show you this on the plan,
I neglected to, but you can look at your monument list.
You'll see that when you look at the plan,
you'll see that this house had more than one atrium.
It had two atria.
And this is one of them.
It's a tetrastyle atrium, because you can see, there are four columns, one around
each of the, of the, one around each corner of the impluvium.
So a house with two peristyles, a house with
two atriums, and even one of the atriums has four columns, as you can see here.
And this one is also very useful for the fact, one of you asked me a question when
we were looking at the Basilica Pompeii, about why
you know, why the columns look the way they did.
I think it was you, and you can see, I mentioned
that they were pieced and here you can see that very well,
these drums placed one on top of another, so that you can
see over time, how easy it would be for some of those
to fall off or become dismantled.
And for us to be left with a sort of thing that we
are left with when we look at what remains in the Basilica of Pompeii.
Here's a view obviously one of the peristyles, here you
will also see something interesting in terms of building technique.
The columns in Pompeii tend to be either of local stone, a local tufa, or made of
these brick, these tiles look like bricks. But then in either
case, stuccoed over, white, fluted to make them
look once again like they are marble columns,
the illusion that they are marble columns even
though they are not, to underscore their Greekness.
This is a view of the, that exedra, that Alexander exedra
that I mentioned to you before, that opens off the first peristyle.
With two columns on bases here.
Note the red at the bottom, white at the top.
Two pilasters painted red, as you can see.
And you can see the tourists standing there gazing down.
They're gazing down at a copy.
And this copy, by the way, for, for a very long time, for as long
as I remember going there, except for this last time I was there.
There was nothing there.
And, I think, most people had no realization
that this amazing mosaic, originally, was on the floor.
But they have put a copy; the mosaic is
now in the Naples Archaeological Museum, long ago moved there.
But they finally put a copy down on the floor.
So that the mosaic that was there.
So that people who visit the House of the Faun realize, oh this is where the
Alexander mosaic was located.
Which is particularly important because this is a view of the, of the mosaic.
This extraordinary mosaic of Alexander the Great
that's now in the Naples Archaeological Museum.
And of course you can see that they display it there,
as if it were a panel picture hanging on the wall.
But that is not how it was displayed or meant to be displayed in the
House of the Faun, it was a floor pavement in the House of the Faun.
But look how nicely, at least in
the museum, they have recreated the ambiance
by putting the columns and the pilasters.
They tried to recreate the sense of the exedra just as it is in the house,
it's just that they put the mosaic in the wrong place, it should be on the floor.
nonetheless, you can see it's an extraordinary work of art.
I'm not going to go into it in great detail, but I did
want to expose you to it, because it is so important, and so magnificent.
And I also want to make absolutely
sure that you don't miss when you go to the Naples, to the
Pompeii area, you do not miss going to the archaeological museum in Naples.
It's an amazing museum, one of the greatest of all the museums in Italy.
And it has, of course, almost all the great
stuff that comes from Pompeii, is at that museum, today.
So it's, another one of those asterisked must-sees.
You look at it here, it represents the battle between
Alexander and the Persian king Darius at the famous battle of Issus.
And at that battle, Alexander was victorious, and you see it here.
And one of the reasons that its so
important for our understanding of the House of the
Faun, is that we believe that this mosaic
was a copy of an earlier lost Greek painting.
A Greek
painting of the same scene, of Alexander and Darius, done in around 300
BC by a Greek painter. That was copied for this house in mosaic.
Sometime in the second century BC.
So, it's another example of this patron, of
this owner of the house, who is so besotted,
with Greek art, that he wants to have as much of it around him, as he possibly can.
And he clearly has the assets that enable him
to commission a mosaicist to make this amazing painting.
Now there are a lot of people who talk about this, this mosaic, excuse me.
A lot of people that talk about this mosaic and they say, well,
you know, it's such a pale reflection of what the painting would have
been, and, you know, it's a typical derivative Roman art that look at
Greek art derived from that they couldn't come up with anything on their own.
I would maintain, that's absolutely untrue, but I would also maintain, that to
do this kind of work in mosaic, rather than paint, is much more difficult.
I mean, this is a true tour de force, to be able to create this kind of active
battle scene, with collapsing horses and with with spears in the sky foreshortened.
And foreshortened weapons down here. This is an amazing thing
to do in mosaic.
When you think of all of these individual tesserae.
These small sto-, sto-, small stones, multi-colored stones that had to
be brought together, placed in mortar to create this amazing tableau.
To me, it seems like it is a much, much greater feat to have
to achieve that, and to achieve it so well, in mosaic than in paint.
Just quickly a couple of details.
Here's the one of Alexander
himself, on his horse.
It's an incredible characterization of the great Hellenistic general and king.
And you see him on his favorite horse,
Bucephalus, here and I think its a wonderful characterization
by this particular, very talented mosaicist and his
workshop to capture the relationship of man and horse.
I mean, if you look at not only the eyes but also at the hair, the hair
of Alexander, tousled, flowing in the wind, the mane
of the horse, so closely allied with one another.
The artist has really very effectively captured that again, even just using
these very small pieces of stone which you can see very well here.
Look at the way the shadows that are cast even by that stone.
It's incredible.
Here's the other detail that I'm going to show you of Darius in his chariot.
he, his driver,
as you can see he's looking toward Alexander.
He's mesmerized by the great hellenistic king, but he's at the same time afraid.
And he's beating a retreat, because you can
see that his driver has turned the chariot around.
He's whipping the horse, and he's heading in the
other direction, away from Alexander, as is this figure here.
We see his horse from the rear. A real tour de force of depicting a horse.
But he, too, is looking at Alexander, quite afraid, and
his horse is also turning, to go off into the distance.
So capturing this very dramatic moment, and
to me the most wonderful detail is this
one that you see down here, which is a view of one of the fallen Persians.
The shield is, is falling over on him, but the shield is, is, is, is
polished to such a shine that he can see the reflection of his own face.
I have a detail to show you of this.
He can see the reflection, you see it here, of his own face in that shield.
And this view is particularly good; I took this one
very close up so that you could see the individual stones.
You don't, you know, from a distance, they blend.
When you go up close, you can really see oh yeah that's, that's a mosaic.
And it's really an extraordinary work of art.
Very quick question, because. >> How, how big are the stones?
>> They're very small.
They're very small. And the
reason for that is in large part so that they will blend
ultimately, and from a distance it will have the feel of a painting.
Certainly when it's on the wall, probably less so when
you stood and looked at it in its original location.
Because, you'd be looking down on it and you'd be closer to it than here.
But it's an amazing work and, again, remember.
That although, the original painting, done by the Greek painter was probably,
did hang on a wall, this one was meant as a floor mosaic
in this house.
But again, a testament to the Greek leanings of this particular patron.
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The trailer of film “SherDil” with actor Mikaal Zulfiqar playing a role of the fighter pilot is released on an ideal time when Indo-Pak border tensions were on hype and it was being discussed everywhere.
The film follows the journey of Mikaal who wants to become a fighter pilot and goes on to how excitedly he announces getting enlisted to Air-Force to when a loved one asks him to quit the force to when he’s locked in a fierce fight with the enemy.
The scene opens up with two PAF fighter planes zooming through the sky to track down three enemies that have entered the country’s territory.
It also features an Indian pilot named Arun Veerani, played by Hassan Niazi, at an international flying school in the UAE. Subsequent the rule set by Bollywood, songs and dance sequences too find their place in the trailer video.
Amusingly, the video also shows about ‘surgical strikes’ and how the ‘enemy’ of Pakistan has never been able to do it till now.
Mikaal has done his first major role in a Pakistani film and Armeena Khan stars as his love in the film. Whereas earlier promotions showed her in fighter pilot costume too, the trailer doesn’t make it clear if she’s in the air force with him or not.
The film is produced by ARY Films, which pays tribute to Pakistan Air-Force will hit the cinema screens on 22nd March. Besides Mikaal, it also features Armeena Khan, Sabeeka Imam and Hassan Niazi in crucial roles.
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Anemia in Crohn's disease Academic Article
Intestinal blood loss as well as chronic inflammation are regarded as the most important mechanisms in the pathogenesis of anemia in Crohn's disease. In addition, cytokines such as interleukin-6 can suppress erythropoietin production. This study was performed to investigate the importance of iron status, inflammatory activity, and endogenous erythropoietin concentrations for the development of anemia in Crohn's disease. In 49 consecutive patients with Crohn's disease, hemoglobin, inflammatory activity (Crohn's disease activity index, C-reactive protein, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein), iron status (serum iron, transferrin, transferrin saturation, ferritin), and serum erythropoietin levels were studied. Anemic (Hb < 12.0 g/dl; N = 16) vs nonanemic patients (Hb > or = 12 g/dl; N = 33) showed reduced iron compartments (eg, ferritin 28.7 +/- 12.9 micrograms/liter vs 63.2 +/- 15.0 micrograms/liter, transferrin saturation 6.2 +/- 1.4% vs 11.5 +/- 1.3%, P < 0.01) but no differences in inflammatory activity. An inverse correlation between erythropoietin and hemoglobin concentrations was found (r = -0.62; P < 0.001), but the increase in erythropoietin levels was inadequate to the degree of anemia. There was no correlation between erythropoietin and interleukin-6 serum levels. Four of five anemic patients with hemoglobin below 10.5 g/dl and erythropoietin levels within the normal range were treated with parenteral iron (200 mg iron saccharate in 250 ml NaCl, weekly, intravenously). Two of them additionally received recombinant human erythropoietin (150 units/kg, 3x weekly, subcutaneously). After five weeks all patients had a marked increase in hemoglobin. However, the mean increase in erythropoietin-treated patients was 5.0 g/dl compared to 2.0 g/dl in the patients with iron therapy only.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Drug Therapy, Combination
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ENGR 131: Ethical Issues in Engineering
Moral rights and responsibilities of engineers in relation to society, employers, colleagues, and clients; cost-benefit-risk analysis, safety, and informed consent; the ethics of whistle blowing; ethical conflicts of engineers as expert witnesses, consultants, and managers; ethical issues in engineering design, manufacturing, and operations; ethical issues arising from engineering work in foreign countries; and ethical implications of the social and environmental contexts of contemporary engineering. Case studies, guest practitioners, and field research. Limited enrollment.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors: McGinn, R. (PI) ; Diawara, M. (TA)
ENGR 131 | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ER | Class # 15918 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP) | SEM | Students enrolled: 31
09/21/2015 - 12/04/2015 Tue 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at McMurtry Building rm 360 with McGinn, R. (PI)
Instructors: McGinn, R. (PI)
01/04/2016 - 03/11/2016 Tue 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at 420-050 with McGinn, R. (PI); Diawara, M. (TA)
Instructors: McGinn, R. (PI); Diawara, M. (TA)
03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Tue 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at Econ 139 with McGinn, R. (PI)
A survey of moral philosophy in the Western tradition. What makes right actions right and wrong actions wrong? What is it to have a virtuous rather than a vicious character? What is the basis of these distinctions? Why should we care about morality at all? Our aim is to understand how some of the most influential philosophers (including Aristotle, Kant, and Mill) have addressed these questions, and by so doing, to better formulate our own views. No prior familiarity with philosophy required.
Instructors: Rozeboom, G. (PI)
ETHICSOC 20 | 5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER | Class # 43361 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 12
01/04/2016 - 03/11/2016 Tue, Thu 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 370-370 with Rozeboom, G. (PI)
Exam Date/Time: 2016-03-15 7:00pm - 10:00pm (Exam Schedule)
ETHICSOC 136R: Introduction to Global Justice (INTNLREL 136R, PHIL 76, POLISCI 136R, POLISCI 336)
This course provides an overview of core ethical problems in international politics, with special emphasis on the question of what demands justice imposes on institutions and agents acting in a global context. The course is divided into three sections. The first investigates the content of global justice, and comprises of readings from contemporary political theorists and philosophers who write within the liberal contractualist, utilitarian, cosmopolitan, and nationalist traditions. The second part of the course looks at the obligations which global justice generates in relation to five issues of international concern ¿ global poverty, climate change, immigration, warfare, and well-being of women. The final section of the course asks whether a democratic international order is necessary for global justice to be realized.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Datta, P. (PI) ; Kitagawa, R. (PI) ; Pena-Rangel, D. (PI)
ETHICSOC 136R | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER | Class # 43289 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 30
03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at Thornt110 with Datta, P. (PI)
Exam Date/Time: 2016-06-07 12:15pm - 3:15pm (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Datta, P. (PI)
ETHICSOC 136R | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER | Class # 58883 | Section 02 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS | Students enrolled: 8
03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Fri 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM at 160-330 with Kitagawa, R. (PI)
Instructors: Kitagawa, R. (PI)
03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Mon 10:30 AM - 11:20 AM at 240-110 with Pena-Rangel, D. (PI)
Instructors: Pena-Rangel, D. (PI)
ETHICSOC 136R | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER | Class # 58951 | Section 05 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | DIS | Students enrolled: 12 / 22
03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Mon 11:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 240-110 with Pena-Rangel, D. (PI)
A more challenging version of Phil 2 designed primarily for juniors and seniors (may also be appropriate for some freshmen and sophomores - contact professor). Fulfills the Ethical Reasoning requirement. Graduate section (270) will include supplemental readings and discussion, geared for graduate students new to moral philosophy, as well as those with some background who would like more.
Instructors: Dannenberg, J. (PI) ; Magnani, M. (TA)
ETHICSOC 170 | 4 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER | Class # 46764 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 3
03/28/2016 - 06/01/2016 Mon, Wed 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 50-52H with Dannenberg, J. (PI); Magnani, M. (TA)
Exam Date/Time: 2016-06-06 3:30pm - 6:30pm (Exam Schedule)
Instructors: Dannenberg, J. (PI); Magnani, M. (TA)
ETHICSOC 171: Justice (IPS 208, PHIL 171, PHIL 271, POLISCI 103, POLISCI 136S, POLISCI 336S, PUBLPOL 103C, PUBLPOL 307)
Focus is on the ideal of a just society, and the place of liberty and equality in it, in light of contemporary theories of justice and political controversies. Topics include financing schools and elections, regulating markets, discriminating against people with disabilities, and enforcing sexual morality. Counts as Writing in the Major for PoliSci majors.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Reich, R. (PI) ; Cooper, E. (TA)
ETHICSOC 171 | 4-5 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-ER | Class # 15657 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | LEC | Students enrolled: 24
09/21/2015 - 12/04/2015 Tue, Thu 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM at Lathrop 282 with Reich, R. (PI); Cooper, E. (TA)
Instructors: Reich, R. (PI); Cooper, E. (TA)
ETHICSOC 174A: Moral Limits of the Market (PHIL 174A, PHIL 274A, POLISCI 135P)
Morally controversial uses of markets and market reasoning in areas such as organ sales, procreation, education, and child labor. Would a market for organ donation make saving lives more efficient; if it did, would it thereby be justified? Should a nation be permitted to buy the right to pollute? Readings include Walzer, Arrow, Rawls, Sen, Frey, Titmuss, and empirical cases.
Terms: not given this year | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Is it possible for a deeply committed religious person to be a good citizen in a liberal, pluralistic democracy? Is it morally inappropriate for religious citizens to appeal to the teachings of their tradition when they support and vote for laws that coerce fellow citizens? Must the religiously committed be prepared to defend their arguments by appealing to 'secular reasons' ostensibly accessible to all 'reasonable' citizens? What is so special about religious claims of conscience and expression that they warrant special protection in the constitution of most liberal democracies? Is freedom of religion an illusion when it is left to ostensibly secular courts to decide what counts as religion? Exploration of the debates surrounding the public role of religion in a religiously pluralistic American democracy through the writings of scholars on all sides of the issue from the fields of law, political science, philosophy, and religious studies.
ETHICSOC 276R: Religion and Politics: a Latin American Perspective (ETHICSOC 376R, PHIL 176C, PHIL 276C)
Religion has traditionally been banished from politics in some places in Latin America. Religious symbols may not be displayed in public buildings, political discourse is expected to be free from all religious content, and religious ministers are not allowed to run for public office, among other measures. This course examines the political motivation for this kind of policies towards religion taking a comparative perspective with American and French variants of secularism.
Terms: not given this year | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
FEMGEN 14N: Imagining India: Art, Culture, Politics in Modern India (COMPLIT 14N, CSRE 15N, TAPS 14N)
This course explores history via cultural responses in modern India. We will examine a range of fiction, film and drama to consider the ways in which India emerges through its cultural productions. The course will consider key historical events such as the partition of the subcontinent, independence from British rule, Green Revolution, Emergency, liberalization of the Indian economy, among others. We will reflect on epochal historical moments by means of artisticnresponses to these events. For example, Ritwik Ghatak's experimental cinema intervenes into debates around the Bengal partition; Rohinton Mistry's novel, A Fine Balance grapples with the suspension of civil liberties during the emergency between 1975-77; Rahul Varma's play Bhopal reflects on the Bhopal gas tragedy, considered the world's worst industrial disaster. Students willnread, view and reflect on the aesthetic and historical texts through their thoughtful engagement in class discussions and written e ssays. They will also have opportunities to imaginatively respond to these texts via short creative projects, which could range from poems, monologues, solo pieces, web installations, etc. Readings will also include Mahashweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, Girish Karnad, Jhumpa Lahiri, Manjula Padmanabhan, Salman Rushdie, Aparna Sen, among others.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors: Menon, J. (PI)
FEMGEN 14N | 3 units | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED | Class # 28881 | Section 01 | Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit | ISF
09/21/2015 - 12/04/2015 Mon, Wed 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM at Memaud125 with Menon, J. (PI)
(Formerly CLASSGEN 17.) Introduction to the sex-gender system of ancient Greece, with comparative material from modern America. How myths, religious rituals, athletics, politics and theater reinforced gender stereotypes and sometimes undermined them. Skills: finding clues, identifying patterns and making connections amongst the components of a strange and beautiful culture very different from our own. Weekly participation in a discussion section is required.
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American Man Arrested After Reportedly Speeding Toward Tijuana Border Crossing, Hitting 17 Cars And Killing 5 People
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Matt M. Miller | Contributor
An American man was arrested Monday for speeding his vehicle toward the American-Mexican border in Tijuana, crashing into 17 other vehicles and killing five bystanders, police said.
The Tijuana secretary of public security said that the man, who was confirmed to be of American origin, reportedly threatened a Mexican man with a knife near the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
The suspect entered a black Chevrolet Silverado truck and began to flee toward the border when Mexican police responded to the scene. The truck had Utah license plates, according to 2KUTV.
The suspect reportedly crashed into 17 other vehicles as well as 14 food vending carts as he sped away from pursuing officers. Five people were mowed down and killed in the carnage, according to Fox News.
A witness told ABC 10 San Diego that he heard a “boom, boom, boom” as he turned to see the black truck approaching behind him. He said that when the truck finally stopped, bystanders surrounded it and proceeded to pop the vehicles tires so it couldnt continue.
The witness stopped to aid a woman who was reportedly hit by a taco cart during the destruction, but he injured himself attempting to help when he slipped on salsa on the roadside. (RELATED: Deputy Chief Border Patrol Agent Says Fences And Walls Are Just One Step In Stopping Illegal Immigration Crisis)
Many scavenged food off the ground left by the impacted vending carts following the destruction, the witness described.
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Open House Riot
Eye on Norquay could not be present at the 13 September 2011 developer open house for 2298 Galt Street. Several separate reports show strong questioning of the rezoning proposal by a substantial number of aggrieved Norquay residents.
One major issue appears to be lack of disclosure on plans for this construction immediately adjacent to recently sold properties. Most directly affected are purchasers/residents of the 8 houses on Galt Street and the 85 dwelling units in the four-storey building at 2239 Kingsway. Those brand-new buildings occupy most of what was a two-acre site. All that remains of the original large parcel (previous home to the London Guard Motel) is this one lot on Galt Street, surrounded by single-family houses in both directions. It is reported that a petition with fifty signatures in opposition formed a part of the open house pushback.
Another prevalent concern, apparent to anyone who looks at either Galt Street or Kingsway, is severe competition for street parking. Galt Street has sprouted an extensive curbside underbrush of plastic pails, old paint buckets, and scavenged traffic cones that attempt to stake out parking space claims. One of the new retail businesses already reports customer access problems caused by unregulated parking on Kingsway. This bad situation will grow far worse whenever the remaining 9 of the 13 new retail units open for business.
The city planners who engaged in the Norquay process from 2006 to 2010 never respected resident input about traffic and parking. Except for the single lot at 2298 Galt Street, all of this current development has occurred under the provisions of existing zoning. Imagine the inundation of automobiles that will follow on completion of far larger developments at 2300 Kingsway, 2667-2703 Kingsway, and the Canadian Tire site at the SE corner of Kingsway and Gladstone. [Breaking new gossip: Canadian Tire employees are reported to have said that the Kingsway store will close in November 2012.] With respect to parking, the Renfrew-Collingwood Community Vision states:
Each proposal for a new housing type has been made conditional … on an assurance that parking
and traffic impacts would be addressed. (p. 30)
The parking spaces allocated to the 4 apartment units proposed for 2298 Galt Street consist of 4 single-car garage units built into the ground floors of the two four-storey buildings — with little to guarantee that these rooms will not be used only as storage facilities, or even as extra bedrooms.
The Norquay Plan (p. 20) dismissed repeatedly expressed concerns about parking with just a wink and a wave. The brouhaha at the 2298 Galt Street open house may be a ripple of discontent compared with the tsunami of neighborhood rage that could be swelling on the distant horizon.
Bill McCreery, an NPA candidate for Vancouver City Council, reports having been present from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm at the developer open house. He says he observed “many very unhappy residents.” During the event McCreery sent out two tweets (brief electronic messages available to all who follow his messaging). The first came after almost an hour of observation:
Bill_McCreery
Attndg.rezong@2239 Kingsway.Riot bttr descrbs n’hood rcptn.Hghlghts flawed n’hood planng process.Planners trying to justify.N’hood not buyg.
11-09-13 6:21 PM
Expanded version: Attending rezoning at 2239 Kingsway. Riot better describes neighborhood reception. Highlights flawed neighborhood planning process. Planners trying to justify. Neighborhood not buying.
[Note: 2239 Kingsway, the place where the open house was held, is a building backing onto the 2298 Galt Street site.]
Planners not developer defending Norquay rezoning. Why? Highlights why n’hood planning process is flawed.
Expanded version: Planners not developer defending Norquay rezoning. Why? Highlights why neighborhood planning process is flawed.
[Note: “Norquay rezoning” could refer to either or both of: The specific proposal for 2298 Galt Street and/or the general and widely unsupported plan to mass rezone about 1900 properties throughout Norquay.]
Posted in Events, News
2298 Galt Street
The City of Vancouver has recently posted to the web a set of seven pdf files related to the rezoning application for 2298 Galt Street.
This means that details on what is proposed can be viewed more easily ahead of the 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm Open House that the developer is holding at 2239 Kingsway on Tuesday 13 September 2011. As well, for persons unable to attend the Open House event itself, considered review and informed comment will be far more feasible.
Neighborhoods across Vancouver should examine carefully the new housing types being proposed in Norquay, as all of these types (traditional rowhouse, duplex with infill, stacked townhouse, four-storey apartment) seem likely to replicate in all nine of the “community vision” areas which have been primarily single-family residential.
Major concerns about this development have already been outlined under Item 1 in September Letter. Here is a recap of those preliminary points with some further elaboration:
• This one-off rezoning application is being used to “test” what the community will accept as a four-storey apartment on a single lot.
• Norquay Working Group was always told that this housing form would require land assembly (more than one lot) and would be built on footprints resembling a U or an H.
• This particular design bears strong resemblance to courtyard rowhousing (but four storeys, not three!). This is the housing type that city planners repeatedly tried to shove into Norquay, even though the Renfrew-Collingwood Community Vision that applies to most of Norquay specifically stated that this type would receive no further consideration.
• There has been no community review whatsoever of anything to do with specifications for the four-storey apartment housing type.
• The zoning specification for hundreds of Norquay properties that fall within this designation has not even been written yet.
• This appears to be the same developer that achieved a major rezoning of 2667-2703 Kingsway long before the Norquay Plan has even gone to public hearing.
• Haphazard redevelopment of single lots seems likely to produce an ugly streetscape, especially if this form of development is ever allowed around Norquay Park or along Earles.
• Existing houses will find their front yards sawtoothed into dark holes by a lessened setback that is designed to produce privatized interior courtyards.
• The characteristics and location of this particular single lot (with side lane, surrounded by newer houses, non-standard lot width for area, street already littered with plastic buckets to stake out parking, facing onto the back of all houses across the street) mean that this case should serve as a prototype for nothing whatsoever.
Posted in Comments, Events, News
September Letter
The following letter prepared by Jeanette Jones is being sent on 6 September 2011 to our Norquay contact list. In regard to the most immediate concern, proposed development at 2298 Galt Street, the only information that has been provided so far to the general community is two thin bits with very limited distribution and little prominence:
• A yellow notification postcard
• A sign board at 2298 Galt Street
Plan now to attend the 13 September 2011 developer open house at 2239 Kingsway and to register your opinion. When this goes to public hearing, your comment will be part of the file. In the case of 2267-2703 Kingsway, Council showed undue respect to a strange comment file: “All 52 comment sheets were in support of the rezoning application.” Earlier, planners threw out a formal Norquay survey of June 2007 when they did not like the result, and complained of “coaching” and “ballot stuffing.” This totally positive result shows far more evidence of skew, yet planners and Council do not question and disparage the result because it says what they want to hear. A file for 2298 Galt Street will be maintained in the Eye on Norquay Rezonings category.
We hope all of you have had an enjoyable and relaxing summer. We want to bring you up to date on recent developments in the Norquay Village Neighbourhood Centre.
1. A development application has been received for a single lot in the transitional “apartment” zone.
The site at 2298 Galt Street (behind the new 4-storey building at 2239 Kingsway, on the north side of Kingsway between Nanaimo and Gladstone) is to be rezoned to CD-1 (Comprehensive Development) to allow the construction of a 4-storey residential building with an FSR of 1.19. This “building” would actually consist of two buildings (front 34.6 feet x 37.5 feet; back 34.6 feet x 40.4 feet; height of 38.7 feet) separated by a courtyard space of approximately 25 feet. The building closest to Galt would be four storeys tall and contain two principal dwelling units and be set back approximately 10 feet from the front property line. (This setback is about half of what exists for the front yards of the existing 9 houses to the west and 11 houses to the east.) The other building would be three storeys tall (tops of the buildings would be the same height because the land slopes), would also contain two principal dwelling units, and would be set very close to the rear lane. One of the dwelling units would contain a lock-off suite. Two parking spaces would be included inside each of the buildings (4 in total), accessible from the lane that runs beside the site. Planners have told us that this rezoning application reflects the kind of built-form that they expect will be permitted everywhere under the emerging 4-storey apartment Transition Zone in the Norquay Plan for single-lot developments.
This development application raises several concerns:
A. There has been no discussion with the community about the Transition Zone. The Open House held in April 2011 dealt only with new housing types in the Duplex, Stacked Townhouse, and Traditional Rowhouse Zones. The Transition Zone was not included in that presentation. Nothing should be built in this zone until the community is consulted. The proposal presented to the Working Group mentioned only 4-storey apartment buildings that would require assembly of at least three lots. Nowhere have design guidelines for this zone been presented to or discussed with the community.
B. The site at 2298 Galt Street is not a typical lot in the Transition Zone. It is wider [46.4 feet frontage x 102.7 (west) / 121.2 feet (east)] than the standard 33 x 122 ft. lot. There is also a lane running beside the site, which gives more options for parking spaces and allows more light to enter the buildings. This site is not representative enough to act as a “test” — or a precedent for anything permitted elsewhere in the Transition Zone.
C. Planners tell us that the difference between the Floor Space Ratio permitted on a single lot (1.19) and the FSR permitted on a three-lot parcel (approximately 2.0 FSR) will be incentive enough to encourage developers to assemble three lots. Developing single lots under this zoning does not seem likely to interest developers large enough and experienced enough to build 4-storey apartment buildings on three lots. But single-lot development will be very attractive to smaller developers accustomed to building single family houses or duplexes. Once a block has one or two single-lot developments, it will become much more difficult to assemble three lots. Haphazard and inconsistent development may result in an unattractive streetscape — especially around Norquay Park where so much will be visible at a single glance.
There is an Open House for this development on 13 September 2011, 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at 2239 Kingsway. Drawings should be available already, but in fact are not. Watch for them at
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/2298galt/index.htm
Written comments may be emailed to: grant.miller@vancouver.ca It is important to communicate your opinion.
2. Rezoning has been approved by Council for 2667-2703 Kingsway.
A 12-storey and a 4-storey building are planned for this site. Detailed planning is now underway. The next step is that this plan will be taken to the Development Permit Board, probably sometime in the fall. The development application can be viewed at
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/2699kingsway/index.htm
Concerns about this development include:
A. The Public Amenities and Infrastructure Financing Strategy promised in the Norquay Plan has not been developed. CACs generated by this project (slightly more than $100,000) are going to be used to mitigate the shadowing that this development will cast on the Duke Street daycare.
B. The 40-foot-wide “plaza” separating the two buildings is to serve as the entrance to the future Renfrew Ravine Linear Park. As currently designed, it will serve primarily as a plaza for the residents of the development, since the main doors to both buildings face the plaza rather than Kingsway. We have suggested that special paving be used to denote the pathway to the park, and that the Duke Street daycare be moved immediately so that the pathway could connect Duke Street to Kingsway even before the rest of the park is built. Planners have assured us that the connection will be wider than the 20 foot opening at the rear of the site that is shown on the development application.
Your input to the final plan can be sent to: paul.cheng@vancouver.ca
3. The Canadian Tire Site at Kingsway and Gladstone is in process of being sold to a developer.
We will provide details as they become available.
4. A development application has been received for 4892 Clarendon.
This is the current site of the Eldorado Liquor Store on the northwest corner of Kingsway and Slocan. A 5-storey building is proposed. We will provide details as they become available.
To keep up with news of what is happening in Norquay, check the Eye on Norquay web site at
https://eyeonnorquay.wordpress.com
It is important to continue to let planners know your opinions. Attend Open Houses and fill out comment sheets. If you can’t make the Open House, send an email. Although it may seem as if our comments are usually disregarded, things will become far worse if we say nothing.
Yours for a better neighbourhood,
6 September 2011 at 10:37 am
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Men, You Might Need A Pap Smear. » « Antoine Hunter.
Smart Monkeys.
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Ice Swimmer says
Hot springs, happy monkey.
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Dunc says
Some of that footage looks like it’s been taken from Ron Fricke’s Baraka, which is an absolutely amazing film that you should definitely see on the biggest screen you can find.
Oooh, thank you, Dunc! I don’t do much from Great Big Story, because they are really bad about providing text, and rarely link to source material. I don’t usually have the time to go on a big ‘net hunt trying to track everything down, either.
If you haven’t seen Baraka, you definitely should. I’m absolutely certain that you’d love it. I saw it in the cinema when it came out, and I’ve never found another film as profoundly affecting. After leaving, you could easily spot everybody else who’d just seen it, even many blocks away, because we were all stumbling around looking completely stunned. It’s one of the best films ever made, IMHO, which is quite something to say for a film with no plot and no dialogue.
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Jadav Payeng: The Indian Man Man Who Grew an Entire Forest
At 17 years old, an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a barren sandbar. At age 47, he lives in his own 1360 acre forest which now houses rhinos, tigers, deer, apes and elephants.
By Rich Powell
Posted: 11:00 21/05/2014
Last Updated: 10:00 07/04/2015
Topics: Environment, Forest, Cool, Awesome, Amazing
It was 1979 when Jadav Payeng came across snakes that had succumbed to the searing heat of the Indian Sun. Washed to the tree-less sandbar by floodwaters, the snakes died from dehydration after failing to find cover.
That is when Payeng took it upon himself to plant around 20 bamboo seedlings in the same area. The habit, it seems, caught on, and he continued to plant trees for years to come.
When the social forestry division of the Golaghat district initiated a scheme to plant trees, he joined the labour force who worked on an area of 200 hectares for 5 years. After their work was complete, Payeng remained, tending to the plants and continuing to grow the forest, little by little.
The area became known as the Molai Forest, named after Payeng's nickname "Molai," and became home to Bengal Tigers, Indian rhinos, over 100 deer, rabbits, apes, and a variety of birds. A large herd of around 100 elephants also visits the forest on a regular basis.
Authorities only became aware of the substantial forest in 2008, when officials went in search of a herd of elephants and much to their surprise, found that they had fled into a large forest that they hadn't previously been aware of.
Since then, local officials regularly visit the forest and even protect the wildlife from poachers.
Today, Payeng takes residency in the forest, living happily in a small hut with his wife and three children.
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No Justice for the Justice
Supreme Court appointments are perhaps the most important confirmations of our lifetime because they are lifetime appointments. They directly affect our lives and American jurisprudence for decades. It is the selection of who determines the law of the land.
As a constitutional conservative, I want jurists who are eminently qualified but are also mindful of the Constitution — originalists and textualists like Antonin Scalia and constitutionalists like Clarence Thomas. However, the mandate for the U.S. Senate is not to approve or disapprove of the philosophical leanings of the candidate but rather to determine whether that person is qualified to be on the Supreme Court. Advise and consent, not pick and choose. The selection of the nominee is the constitutional prerogative of the president.
Elections have consequences.
Somewhere along the way, the process changed. The Bork hearings in ’87 paved the way for the nasty, disgraceful and partisan tone of future confirmation hearings. When senators reopened the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing after Anita Hill’s FBI testimony was leaked, it opened a new era of how far Senate Democrats would descend from the role of advise and consent to smear and destroy.
Anita Hill was not believable. There was little evidence to support her claim. There were many more witnesses who testified in support of Thomas’ character. Thomas characterized it as a “high-tech lynching” because he was a black conservative. He was correct.
The Brett Kavanaugh scandal is comparable to the nature of that ambush.
Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation was first presented to Sen. Dianne Feinstein in July, and it was conveniently “leaked” at the last moment. It is an uncorroborated accusation from 36 years ago. There are contradictions in Ford’s statements. She doesn’t know when or where the alleged incident happened or how many people were involved. The absurd demand of her attorney for the accused to speak first and for her client not to be interrogated by lawyers was a contradiction of due process.
A multitude of people — including Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, men and women — attest to Kavanaugh’s impeccable character. He has no proven history of the kind of aberrant behavior alleged by Ford. The four individuals placed at the scene by Ford all deny her version of events. All deny even being there. One claimed to be her lifelong friend.
Subsequent accusations proved to be implausible or dubious.
Certainly, serious charges should be examined. But how much further should they impact the process if they are baseless? It is not the job of the accused to disprove an unverified accusation. Judge Kavanaugh has been investigated six times by the FBI.
A fundamental principle of Western jurisprudence and justice presumes innocence until one is proven to be guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It is hard to believe that those who choose our nation’s justices do not seem to understand this basic concept. The uncorroborated charges against Kavanaugh and the reactions from Ford’s supporters reveal much more about them and the senators aligned with her than they do about the judge.
The sad truth is, there are people willing to destroy a person’s life and career based on little evidence, for political reasons, as part of a political process to delay a nomination.
They should be ashamed of themselves.
Ultimately, specious charges such as these undermine real and serious cases of harassment and sexual assault.
It is a sad state of affairs and a far cry from when Justice Scalia was confirmed in 1986 and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed in 1993. As divergent in judicial philosophy as they could be, they both had something in common: Scalia was confirmed 98-0, and Ginsburg was confirmed 96-3.
It was a better time. The United States Senate understood its constitutional role.
What has been revealed is that today, there are senators who barely understand our constitutional rights or due process. Due process is so important to the cause of justice that it was reiterated verbatim in the 14th Amendment. Perhaps those championing this latest smear campaign against Judge Kavanaugh should go back and read the Fifth, Sixth and 14th amendments.
We have come to another junction in our history where the nation has to make a choice, and this choice will determine whether America will remain the beacon of liberty. There are those who claim this is just a job interview. Whether in a court or in an office, is it unreasonable to ask that fairness, logic and justice be a fundamental part of the process? America is an extraordinary country because we have always represented justice. May justice prevail.
Michael Ramirez is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning, nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist with Creators Syndicate.
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Portable & Mobile Tech
Samsung, the masochistic tech company?
By SquallStrife, October 18, 2012 in Portable & Mobile Tech
SquallStrife 531
Really knows where his towel is
Herø
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/18/google-...ebook-hands-on/
Apparently the laptop department didn't get the memo from the phone department, that listening to orders to blatantly copy Apple's products will get you sued.
NukeJockey 4
I've never used a Crapple laptop, what is it with this that Samsung have copied?
twinair 142
Haha! Apart from the fact it says "SAMSUNG" on it...it's looks almost identical to a mac book.
PointZeroOne 52
Crash Test Dummy
Atomican
Location:Victoria
Oh wow, it totally does. Having not used nor seen a macbook, I was unaware of the Aesthetics, thats crazy.
Pretty sure though there isn't the same kind stupid patents in the laptop space as there is in the phone space.
ilyria109 0
Location:ACT
i see some very big differences, but still, i think they just made a miniature version of their S-Series Laptops. and made more of an "Ultrabook" reference with the colour.
Although most small, slim laptop do look similar, I guess it leave much for innovation at that size.
Perhaps, but this is Apple V Samsung we are talking about here....anything goes!
Akamatsu 0
i see some very big differences...
Wait, what? Besides the hinge mechanism, what other big differences are there?
Besides the hinge? the lid bevel, the shape on the front under the touchpad, i'm pretty sure the air is a bit more "bubbly" more "rounder" maybe, as opposed to the samsungs more sharper look. To be honest, i think the macbook looks a lot better, even the shaping underneath, giving it more of an aerodynamic look (for throwing maybe? =\ ) gives it that bit more class, to be honest, the samsung (in this instance anyway) is aesthetically boring, especially in comparison with that white macbook seen above.
I agree with what you've mentioned, but would consider those elements 'subtle' as opposed to 'very big'. You have to admit, the similarities are striking. Very big would have been this:
Which was the original Samsung Chrome book. It looked better than the new version in my opinion.
But you have to admit, all netbooks look very similar, and have very striking similarities. For example :
Everything is quite similar on the model i linked, shape wise, not thinkness, they've refined that, the only major difference besides size refinement is the crome edge, which is patented by apple im pretty sure? (btw that's a hp)
A Hitman 0
Atømican
Oh shit, they made a laptop that looks like a, GASP, laptop!
If Apple was so worried about people copying them they would stop making nondescript designs that consist of a single colour and rounded edges.
dishd 0
Location:Penguin, Tasmania
Well once round 2 of the court case get under Apple are in trouble, the ruling of the first case, is thought to be incorrect and illegal, so SamSung will have the last laugh...
Apple are shite,expensive and a fad, even as we speek Android has a much larger share of the mobile market, compared to iphones/iOS and that share is growing everyday.
"you have an Apple product......Wadup Granpa!"
Ah, that old gem.
Do yourself a favour, find sales figures broken down by market segment.
There are more Android phones in the wild than iPhones, correct. Most of those Android phones are shitty $89 burner phones running Froyo.
To put it in terms you might get: There are more Toyota Camrys sold than BMW sedans, yes, but how many $30,000 sedans do BMW offer?
"Overpriced expensive shit" is what poors say because they can't afford nice things. kthxbai.
Edited October 19, 2012 by SquallStrife
To be honest, you're confusing me a little bit. I don't quite understand what similarities you're seeing in the image posted above, compared to what Samsung has just released. All Ultrabooks and netbooks have similar physical features, but it's the details that give away that this design was influenced by Apple's offerings.
Lets take the colour scheme as an initial example. Apple laptops are silver as a result of the material they're made out of. This doesn't imply that Apple owns the colour silver, there were plenty of other silver laptops around before the original iBook came out, but they were the first to match it with a black chiclet style keyboard when they released the unibody Macbook. This isn't necessarily a logical colour combination, there's nothing objectively better about having a silver body with black keys, it's a style that Apple came up with. Given the plastic body, Samsung could have just as easily used any other colour combination.
Second, let's look at the finer details of the keyboard. Apple wasn't the first to do a chiclet style keyboard, it was Sony for laptops, but the concept comes from a 1980s Sinclair PC. However, since their introduction in the 2005 Macbook, they've had a very particular style that hasn't changed much with respect to key sizes and arrangement. Take for example the arrow keys:
Notice that there's blank space either side of the up arrow, also notice the rounded edge between the up and down arrows. Now, there's have a look at the same area on the new Samsung:
Same blank space, same filleted edge. There are some differences in the radius of the fillet between the up and down arrows, and with the rounded edges of the keys. The font and symbol detail are also different, but it's hard to believe that Samsung arrived at these same design decisions without any influence from Apple's products.
Finally, let's look at the trackpad and the groove used to open the screen:
It's not really the trackpad that gives it away, although the lack of markings for left and right buttons is a deviation from their Series 9 design, it's the shape of the groove. It's slightly longer than what appears on the MacBooks, but the ends are unmistakable. This is not an objective design decision. It's not a case where this shape works best, and is therefore the logical conclusion. On the Macbook, the rounded corner matches the radius of the round trackpad edges. It's a design decision that maintains symmetry, but results in a sharp edges that many have complained about. In my quick search, I couldn't find any other ultrabooks that used a similar shape. It's difficult to explain how this could happen without the idea that Samsung has copied.
So why has Samsung copied, and is it really a big deal? I'd argue they've copied because Apple has set the current fashion trend in laptops. Consumers like the style of Apple's laptops, some of them may even have chosen Apple's products on style alone, and this is a market that Samsung would like to tap into. It's actually very difficult to set a fashion trend, be it with clothes or technology, so it's a safer strategy to copy than to come up with something new. I personally don't think it's a big deal, but I do think it reflects poorly on Samsung. By copying, they're not innovating, and it implies a certain level of subservience to Apple.
Edited October 19, 2012 by Akamatsu
What a pointless statement
As an operating system, Android has a larger market share than iOS. It is that simple.
It doesn't matter how much the handset costs.
Nich... 658
Professional Tart
I guess this should make people who only buy an Apple for the larger trackpad happy <.>
ninjacatfish 0
Location:South West WA
Jesus Christ, that thing is a freaking MacBook Air with a Samsung logo :|
Wooooooooooooow.
It does. Here's why.
Apple's market for iPhones isn't the entire smartphone market. They're only interested in the high-end, alongside the likes of HTC One X and Galaxy S3.
And in that segment of the market, iPhone consistently outsells its competitors. It was only in the months leading up to the iPhone 5 announcement that Galaxy S3 sales really overtook iPhone 4S sales by a decent amount.
Apple doesn't make a $89 burner handset, so a Samsung/Huawei/LG phone sold at that price isn't necessarily a lost/missed iPhone sale. Make sense?
So, while the statement "There are more Android handsets than iOS handsets" is itself true, it's only half of the picture.
mudg3 0
Location:Brisbane QLD
Will the track pad be any good though?
"There are more Android handsets than iOS handsets" is itself true.
I don't know if you are arguing for the sake of arguing, but whatevs...
I don't know if you are being deliberately dense, but whatevs...
The Tick 56
Superherø
Probably not. Who cares about that though. Apple bad/ marketing/ sheep/ baaaaah/ grrrr/ Android/ rounded corners. That's where the argument is at. Fuck having something nice to work on or having an opinion based on actual daily use and consumption of a device.
Ok - seriously. It's an interesting point about the trackpad.
New contract I am involved with - one of the owners was provided an ASUS zenbook about a month before I started. Weight, size and the fact that she was coming off a Windows notebook was the decision for it. It's been back twice under warranty but that wasn't the reason she was unhappy with it - it was the trackpad (and to a lesser degree an occasional skipping keyboard although that may have been due to the fucking trackpad). I did pretty much everything there was to do to rectify it but in the end she opted for an external mouse out of frustration.
Someone had been in her ear about an Air (not me - I was trying to get her $1700 investment to work the way she wanted it to). I suggested we go to the Chadstone Apple store to play with one (my 15" MBP was too big so she couldn't get her head around the same trackpad on a smaller laptop). The trackpad and keyboard sold her on it and she hasn't been this happy (her words) with a laptop in a long time. She couldn't give a shit about how it "looks", it's about getting her work done and then getting off the thing without the frustration she has had so far.
I honestly believe every hater here either has never worked with Apple products or have had a minor inconvenience with one and blows it so far out of proportion that they justify their unnecessary hatred for the company, their products and their customers. My current contract has me supporting a 60 site national network with around 250 Windows PCs and a small mix of Macs. Every time someone has pushed for the inclusion of a Mac, I have fought it if it wasn't for the right reasons. I have bought more PCs since being here than Macs because it makes sense, not because of looks. The last laptop purchase was for two HPs and the one prior to that was a Lenovo X220 for one of the guys who is constantly flying around the country. Not everyone who loves working on their Apple products is a sheep or a zealot.
Samsung are copying every design aesthetic from Apple's playbook to try and capture that market. The end result is an inferior product that looks like it should work better but it doesn't. Maybe they are better off making a better product themselves and getting their own look and feel. It would certainly make my life easier as I don't have to fend off the people asking for this knock off crap and then complain when it doesn't work as well as they thought it would.
I quite like Apple products. But I've never been a fan of the trackpad/touchpad/maxipad...whatever you want to call it, on any laptop. I'll take a mouse any day.
Having said that though, what Apple are good at is blurring the line between phone, tablet and laptop. The iPad is just one big trackpad...and I'm getting used to that. So perhaps when I get my MBA I won't find it as annoying as I did previously.
Actually, probably not. I do a lot of fiddly work with Viso etc...anyone use Visio or similar and enjoy using a trackpad at the same time?
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The Next Studio Album
By Charles J. White, February 26, 2013 in Led Zeppelin Master Forum
Location:Clarksdale to Memphis
I also have to step forward and say I'll get a co-production credit as well. Unlike SuperDave I WILL give one small hint as to the style of JP's new studio effort, POLKA. And I'll leave it at that.
That was supposed to be kept under wraps. Now it's out!
SuperStatic
Sorry SuperDave but I couldnt keep it to myself any longer. I cant wait to see the fans reaction when they hear Jimmy's soaring guitar rifts interact and dance with the wonderful rhythms of his backing Polka band! :]
Mattmc1973
Robert has spent 33 years not wanting to do it. As they say in behavioral psychology circles, "the best indicator of future behavior is past behavior." It's not EVER going to happen. And these guys are pushing 70. The window is closed.
They said the same thing about doing a reunion concert.
Disco Duck
When I see the word "polka", I imagine elderly Polish-Americans at a VFW hall dance somewhere in Middle America. And accordions playing "Roll out the Barrel".<g> However, I suppose you can play polka music on guitar if you want so...
newyorkgoodnight
There's another reason to do it and thats money ! One last big payday before they call it a day will be very tempting to the Led wallet !
I don't think they would do it if they didn't feel they could do it justice but after the O2 I think they shocked themselves more than anyone else
as to how good they still were.I do believe they will give it one more shot with a tour spread over a period with long breaks in between to give themelves time to recover,throw the half hour acoustic set in for a sit down and off we go.
Dallas Knebs
Location:Murphy, Texas
they turned down $1B billion pounds+ already... ca$h has not been a priority for a while now
No Cure Is Known
Location:......Birmingham.....ALABAMA
But if Rob wants to buy half of Texas since I'm guessing he likes it there, he'll need an additional source of scratch.
So... new album and tour.
Benny 71
New Tour as well eh ???
Being serious I wouldnt mind them doing some sort of tour, or even a mini tour, or just playing some shows "here and there" when the feeling hits them.
But I honestly would be even more interested to hear what kind of new music they could create. There's no doubt they have grown as musicians from 1980 up until now. I dont think they would try to rehash Zeppelin 1 for instance. But could make new music that has the same "power" and "Style" as Zepelin 1 but WITH the addition of all their musical experience over the decades. That would be really cool IMO.
MisterMcLov1n
A tour/new album didn't happen in the late eighties, the nineties, or even after they actually reunited, so it probably won't happen when the original members are all in their sixties. It also seems pretty clear that Robert isn't interesting in singing about squeezing lemons anymore.
dimestoreguru
Continuing in that vein? That contradicts all the (good IMHO) arguments made (mostly by Robert) over the last 33 years as to why Led Zeppelin was done.
I very much agree. I used to be ticked at how Plant wouldn't let the group reconvene. Now I respect it, and I get puzzled why he himself keeps letting the door slightly ajar for some kind of reunion with the "Capricorns."
Wish I too had an answer. Can't figure it out. Is it just a ploy, just some comment thrown out there or actually genuine?
SteveAJones
The Alchemist's Archivist
Location:Tokyo
I get puzzled why he himself keeps letting the door slightly ajar for some kind of reunion with the "Capricorns."
For the same reason more than half the setlist is Led Zeppelin material: purely to maintain interest in what has arguably become a disinteresting solo career.
ticket sales and album/download sales support this
anytime the flow of interest runs low he either switches up musicians, adds LZ numbers or tosses out anything that creates a buzz of interest and revives a conversation. Originally he had to bring in Phil Collins to get ticket sales then when the concert ticket sales were flagging he decided it was a good time to "do Led Zeppelin material" then when that went dry it was a good time to do stuff with Page again. Went solo again... oh wait that didn't go so great... time to collaborate and raise some sand. That road was short even with grammys boost. Better "rework" the LZ material to keep it fresh and create some buzz and interest.
Since the late '80s he has done more than 64% Led Zeppelin material, 24% cover material and the rest solo material.
Not bashing him mind you. This period is a difficult time at best to be an artist in the music industry that has been in a severe downward trend with untold numbers of casualties and roadkills. Plant has done an excellent job not getting swept into the depths of has-beens like 99% of artists during this period.
More an indicator of the times in the industry, the circumstances have dictated a narrow selection of choices and I for one admire his ability and craftiness at navigating one hellaciously difficult time period and staying fresh, relevent and creative to boot. Almost impossible to do. The biggest indicator for me is how many people truly love the man and watching him do his thing.
When I saw him as Patty's Driver in Austin a few months back, he was bursting with energy, focused and so damn good I couldn't believe my eyes or my ears. Forget youthful exuberance, Plant is a juggernaut right now in terms of ability and delivery.
In this climate however, not really translating into sales/downloads. The sales figures for his recent releases are nominal, the SSS Blu-Ray has sold less than nearly everything that has been released in that time period.
Plant must really love making music and performing. It's not as if he needs the money. He was set for life by the time Zep folded. Yet, he keeps putting himself out there; recording, composing, touring. That takes a special kind of passion. I like my job well enough but there is no way I would continue to do it into my sixties if I didn't need the money.
Jesus, Joseph and Mary..... he burned so many bridges and restricted access to make new music and get it out there ? Think about that for a second.
First, bridges are not required even if they existed. If they do, please point out where one is located
Second, industry changed and pissed people off- really? Name someone he pissed off so bad they would not jump at the chance to talk to him
Ok, well gosh- he really hurt himself by being the most in demand act in history and being offer $1 Billion Pounds and anything else he wanted just name it. Really crippled his future he did. It's horrible that he has so damaged himself as to be honored at the Kennedy Center Honors and be the envy of every single artist in the world.
The music industry is so languished right now one of the few bright spots came from Celebration Day released by a band that ended in September 1980. Or did it? Says Led Zeppelin on the label, on the inside and on the discs.
The boxsets may well turn the only real profit in 2013-2014 for a record label. Dear lord he is just limping along, nevermind being respected and admired by the most loyal and informed fans in the world. He should probably consult Rolling Stone magazine for advice for a solid path for image repair and public relations.
Really? Pardon my shock.
No offense but Page hasn't released any new compositions that I know of since Walking into Clarksdale. That was over a decade ago. Nor has he performed much in public during this period. Unlike John Deacon, he never announced that he was retiring from the music business. Thus, I don't think it's out of line for posters to wonder why he has been relatively inactive as a musician during this period. Yes, I know that he's the one who oversees the new releases from Zep's catalog but this isn't the same as recording new music or performing in public.
ksgemini
Location:CT
Agreed Virgil I liked the Americana stuff as well...and the Shape Shifters ...havent seen em live but what I have heard is interesting.It's fine if people don't like Plant's newer music but i think theres room for that and the Zep legacy both. When I heard people calling Alison Krauss "yoko" a few years ago I had to laugh...just because one may not appreciate a type of music doesn't make it inferior...Zep listened to a lot of Fairport Convention and obviously respected Sandy Denny enough to bring her on an album...yet to some people their kind of music is probably considred "sleepy'. OT: Richard Thompson's "Electric" makes for a good listen..well -produced by Buddy Miller so near topic by one degree of separation.
Virgil, U write what I want to write ...good post. Sorry I forgot Joni and others...If they ever did try a project...maybe for charity or something, I'd like a little acoustic mixed with the thunder this time.
Flyingzepp
Location:Missouri
Plant sure does know how to rile up a few of you
Yes he does. But we'll see if it's just an off the cuff remark or something else.
austinzeppelin68
Location:On the corner of Bleecker and Nowhere, In the land of not quite day.
I'd like to see a page album but I don't think they need a whole album of Led Zeppelin with all members + jason, it's just not Zep.
Without Bonzo in the mix, it's not Led Zeppelin. They ended it in the most beautiful fashion. To make a new album under Led Zeppelin would just ruin that legacy.
Edited March 19, 2013 by austinzeppelin68
I pray to God and the Devil they do not do it.
The only thing worth Led Zeppelin -minus John Bonham- can do is a tour like The Police. Any other activity will be their tomb.
Let's be serious about it. Jimmy Page creativity is dry since mid-seventies. Outrider was an honest effort. Page/Coverdale was fantastic but has short legs (it was Led Zeppelin 2.0). And Plant/Page reunion was all Zepp stuff. Walking into Clarksdale was something I think I heard once in my life, and left me indiferent.
Let's face it: their time, as Led Zeppelin, was gone long time ago.
You say say that JP has been in a dry spell for some time and yet were still asking for more after 30yrs + and we know and trust me, when JP comes out with a new CD it will be mighty and the dry spell will be forgotten ..There inst many Guitarist that can hit a dry spell for that long of period of time and still be relevant..It simply just does not happen..
You say they LZ were gone a long time ago and yet after 40yrs were still talking about them..Never ever estimate the power of LZ..
A few say that there is no LZ without JHB True!.. however, and yet there were over 20 Mill requesting Tickets for one show and that Million more will glamor for a reunion tour..
The legacy of LZ wont be tarnish if there were one more officaill tour without JHB.. JB is more than capable of handling and making sure and making hes Pop proud that he help put the name LED ZEPPELIN Legacy into a new generation.. Nuff Said
Edited March 19, 2013 by Megalodon
Looking forward to the documentary when it is released... Thx for the info, Steve.
Been a long time since I was on the forum....
hope some newer footage OF jP, jPJ AND rp along w. Jason jamming is included...
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How about an acoustic reunion?
By Tadpole in a Jar, February 8, 2018 in Led Zeppelin Master Forum
Tadpole in a Jar
Location:Atlanta, GA
I was watching videos of John Paul Jones playing mandolin with the Dave Rawlings Machine and Robert singing with Patti Griffin and thought, "Okay, so Robert can't sing loud and hard like he did in 1970. But how about an acoustic reunion? I would be there!" The Earl's Court acoustic set was the best part of the DVD, in my opinion.
The only pitfall I can imagine is the audience being rowdy and restless. They would have to play arenas and acoustic music doesn't travel so well in there. But whatever, it would be a compromise that could work for everyone.
Boleskinner
Zeppelin aren't Simon and Garfunkel.
It's almost that scenario in reverse.
When S&G reformed to play Central Park, FartyUncle wanted it to be just them and an acoustic guitar, but Simon wanted all his session dudes in on the act.
Regarding Zep, I wouldn't mind an acoustic interlude, but not a whole show.
They're Hammer of the Gods, not Val Doonican.
kirchzep27
Location:Long Island NY
Actually, considering page and plants, wonderful one and yah la, it would be most likely acoustic if page and plant ever played again......add john paul jones and it would most likely need volume and drums. Unless they bring him in as a sideman mandolin player, or acoustic guitar....then it could be page, plant, jones unplugged.
Unledded was 24 years ago.
tmtomh
3 hours ago, Tadpole in a Jar said:
I think you make a reasonable observation - and I'm guessing that this also is fairly close to the type of scenario Plant suggested or would agree to for a reunion. And also the scenario Page and Jones probably rejected. I do think it would be cool, though.
3 hours ago, Boleskinner said:
The whole thing was 37 years ago.
They have an album called Led Zeppelin III everyone should check into. Almost the entire second side is acoustic.
I think Page would be willing to busk on sidewalks if Robert wanted to do it, just to experience playing with his baby again.
They played acoustically at pretty much every concert after III with Jones and they didn't have to go electric. You mean if you heard you could see the three of them and Jason (you don't have to slam drums to play them; he could adjust), if you heard it would be acoustic guitars and mandolins, you wouldn't go?
56 minutes ago, Tadpole in a Jar said:
Your talking about one side of an album, not a concert.
How many all-acoustic concerts did Zep play?
And how many acoustic songs did they play at the O2, their only official full-set reunion?
As Page said Zep is all about light and shade, and to restrict a reunion gig to Val Doonican renditions of Immigrant Song is just barmy and will never happen.
If you want to hear acoustic bastardisations of Zep songs go check out Plant and the Sensational Wallbangers.
bluecongo
Location:WNC
Although it'll never happen, lets just say for kicks Page Plant and JPJ reunited to fit an acoustic set in some sound studio with a small intimate audience.
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
Black Mountainside
Thats the Way
Going to California
Battle of Evermore
Black Country Woman
They could do a nice little 30-45 minute set. I'd be happy.
It'll never happen.
Stryder1978
Location:The Misty Mountains
44 minutes ago, bluecongo said:
Agreed, but don't forget "No Quarter" on your set list. Loved the 12 string acoustic version on "UnLedded" and with Jones on keyboard, I think it would be magical!
Going on RPs comments about acoustic material. I think an acoustic approach is the most likely of all the unlikely scenarios. Suspect it’s also the most likely scenario where something new might occur
IMHO acoustic doesn’t have to mean without power or mean running through all the zeppelin songs in a row, straight bat, that have acoustic guitars in them. It might just mean low key, no cavernous ice rinks.
There’s a lot of possibilities. These guys are artists.
nemophilist
This has always been one of my favorite ideas as their acoustic songs are really a major part of what sets them apart from all other heavier bands (regardless of sub-genre of rock or metal), as well as their contemporaries in folk (because they don't have the aspect of a heavier side). Plus it would be a lot easier for them to do, it's more relaxed, they could play smaller venues like Robert likes and it would take less practice if they just did it straight acoustic, unlike unledded. And it still leaves room for a lot of improvisation and creativity. Unfortunately it seems that Jimmy doesn't really want to do this, or at least what Robert's vision of this would entail.
A poster above stated that it would essentially be lame if they did something like the Immigrant song acoustic, and I agree and I know what you're saying about the light and shade (but essentially that pertains to all songs, he just means the swaying of emotions through vibration, climax; I would say "that's the way" has that element very distinctly without being heavy, as well as gallows pole) but I think when people say an acoustic set they don't mean doing acoustic renditions of immigrant song or heartbreaker, more so songs like Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, That's the Way, Bron Y-Aur Stomp, Battle of Evermore, Gallows Pole, their folk influenced songs.
I actually thought it would've been perfect if they did an acoustic section in the 02 reunion show. If I was to be critical of one thing it would be that they didn't sit down for a short acoustic section during the show.
Edited February 9, 2018 by nemophilist
dandak
Since plant is now a prima-donna and wont do anything with Zep, how about the other 2 getting together with Jason and just doing a little instrumental playing in front of a live audience. They can do Bron-yr-aur, Black Mountainside, Moby Dick/Bonzos Montreux, 10 Ribs and All, St Tristams Sword, La La, Jennings Farm Blues, Swan Song, etc., as well as a long long medley of the riffs from worded Zeppelin songs (Nobodys Fault, Heartbreaker, 10 Years gone, Out on the Tiles, Tea for One, Achilles, etc). I'd bet even without plant there the event would be fantastic. Of course, the naysayers would be griping that "it isnt Zeppelin" (Duh....No Kidding?) but I'd still take that over NOTHING, which is what we will get as Page waits...and waits....and waits...for plant to say he is interested. Heck, invite the singer from Greta Van Fleet to sing along on a few songs. Seriously, plant isnt coming around, these guys are getting old. Its time to do SOMETHING without plant.
6 hours ago, bluecongo said:
You have left out Bron-Y-Aur Stomp and Bron-Y-Aur. Please turn in your fan card. (That's a joke.)
"Boogie with Stu" could also figure in there. "Ten Years Gone" would work that way. I think Jones and Plant are both passing through Nashville a lot lately, I'd be thrilled to see the two of them just do a few songs together, maybe sit in at each other's shows.. That's something we've never seen.
Edited February 9, 2018 by Tadpole in a Jar
No Bonzo = No Stomp
Id love to hear Bron Y Aur though!
Jason would be there. He would play with brushes or congas.
If no one's into this, that would be great news for me! Smaller venues, lower ticket prices and plenty of parking!
You forgot “Down By The Seaside”
R😎
KellyGirl
Location:U S A
I don't want anyone to think I'm giving a Bronx cheer or popping their balloon, because who
hasn't thought of a way for Plant, Page and Jones to collaborate together, without it going
against Plant's wishes and turning into full-scale Zeppelin beast mode!
Let's say there was an overwhelming demand for an unplugged (acoustic) gig AND Robert
agreed to this. One important factor prevents that from getting off the ground. The guitar
player.
I don't buy for one second that Jimmy is capable of playing a guitar at a level where he'd be
satisfied with fans listening. Does he wish he could? Yes of course, but something
physically has put that to a dead stop. There is a difference with he can't and he won't. I say
he can't. After what happened in Japan ( S A J had a thread explaining) that was more than
enough proof his public playing days were finished.
It's going on 11 years since the 02 show. We know Page was disgruntled with Plant not
wanting to take it on the road, however no way would that continue to prevent Page from
playing (other than a few times) I don't buy that. If Jimmy could, he would find ways to be
heard in some capacity.
Now if there is not a damn thing wrong with him, than holy shiiit talk about stubbornness, but
that's not what's happened here. Life happens and Page has had to find other ways to be
involved in music. In reality I say there is no scenario where Page will play again - and that
includes with the 2 members of Led Zeppelin. Sorry I'm just calling it like I see it.
1 hour ago, KellyGirl said:
What is the japan (saj) thread you mentioned? Or what happened in Japan with Jimmy?
2 hours ago, KellyGirl said:
physically has put that to a dead stop.
I was watching video of a signing event for his photo book. He didn't actually sign your book, he had a big stamp that said "Zoso" and the date of the event. That makes me think he probably has arthritis, and may have had it for a long time and was doing what he could, while he could. For a long time now he's been saying he was practicing for a solo album and tour that have never materialized. It probably makes him feel good to say and reassures the public, but I have doubts.
Jason Bonham playing congas in an acoustic Zep reunion.
We have finally reached La La land on this forum.
Edited February 9, 2018 by Boleskinner
babysquid
9 hours ago, nemophilist said:
Think Kelly is referring to the Classic Rock Awards show where the advertising made it appear that Jimmy was co-headlining. All he eventually did was present an award!
Xolo1974
3 hours ago, babysquid said:
Yeah that’s right. It was fraudulent misrepresentation and the organisers had to offer refunds to the attendees.
2 hours ago, Xolo1974 said:
Oh okay, I thought that might've been what you meant but I just wanted to make sure.
Yes that's the thread!! Thanks babysquid and Xolo1974!!
They had Jimmy presenting Jeff Beck with some reward. It was the perfect set up for the two
to jam. The promoting of the event was so sketchy though. There were so many pissed off
people who felt like they had been taken -- hence the refund they were all given eh! Very poorly
done, but at least people could get their money back. Sad though when you attend an event with
Page and you leave feeling extremely dissatisfied. Lesson learned though right!
It's 4 in the morning, I've had too much to drink, been out with the boys.
I'd like nominate this as the most fucktard thread ever.
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OFF is a surreal game originally released in 2008 and developed in RPG Maker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off_(video_game)
In OFF you play as The Batter, who is on a sacred mission to purify the world of specters, malevolent ghosts which are haunting the populace for unknown reasons. But all may not be as it seems, and the game will soon make you question your own role in all of this...
The way the game's narrative treats the fourth wall is pretty unique even among games exploring similar concepts. I played it recently and fell in love with it, but RPG Maker 2003 is quite an old engine and doesn't run so well on modern systems, so I've decided to try porting the game to Sphere, both to keep a great game alive and as a showcase of what our modern engine can do. I'm not really an artist so my game projects tend to go nowhere, but doing a port like this means I can use the pre-existing assets and focus on what I am good at, which is JavaScript coding.
The original author of OFF is very accepting of fan works, having deliberately left a lot of things in the game open to interpretation, so I don't think there will be a problem with a project like this in that regard, but I'll be sure to try to get formal permission if anything becomes of this.
I'm not sure yet if I want to recreate the RPG Maker-style turn-based battle system or try for something more unique, like what's seen in Spectacles. The original game's combat was honestly pretty tedious and boring (not to mention easy), so it'd be nice to spice things up for a remake.
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Re: OFF: Puppetmaster
Reply #1 – August 27, 2018, 07:14:44 am
This is nice, has the potential to attract some attention to miniSphere, and gives you the opportunity to play with the source material a bit.
RPG Maker 2003 is quite an old engine and doesn't run so well on modern systems
I think it's good not to consider this the reason as engines like EasyRPG solve this problem anyway. A good reason, though, is to have an OFF fan game made with miniSphere.
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Agreed it's not a good reason in and of itself to remake a whole project (...debatably, considering that miniSphere exists...), but it did serve as initial motivation. The main thing is I love the game so I'd want to see what a more polished, modern version would look like, particularly as the original was pretty weak in the combat department.
Reply #3 – August 30, 2018, 12:06:46 pm
In the process of making the title screen for this game I made a full-screen Sphere logo. Anyone can feel free to use it
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So I was thinking about how, in the original game, there are enemies weak to different elements. The problem was, you finished the game at around level 15 and didn't even get a chance to learn the techniques using them. As a result you'd often run into spectres weak to some attack you didn't have and have to resort to boring normal attacks. This, combined with enemies just being too squishy in general, made the combat as a whole very dull. It was by far the weakest part of the game.
To solve this problem, I've come up with an idea that you can imbue your bat with different elements on-demand and take advantage of a weakness that way. Any attack making physical contact would then inherit that element. Furthermore spectres will be given more HP to ensure you can't get by just attacking normally; you will need to pay attention to weaknesses and adjust accordingly.
For those curious, the elements in OFF are rather bizarre, in keeping with its nature as a surrealist narrative. They do map pretty closely to the "traditional" elements, though: smoke (air), metal (earth), plastic (water), meat (fire... I guess?)
Thinking about it, metal and plastic bats make sense, I guess "smoke" could be a wooden bat, but a baseball bat made out of meat doesn't sound very useful in combat? Unless it's like, secretly a piece of ham on a bone or something. That could work.
Reply #5 – September 04, 2018, 01:55:22 am
I've finished the title screen as well as the entire opening cutscene of the game--save for the name-entry screen so the player can enter his/her name. This game plays with the fourth wall a bit so that screen is kind of important.
This being my maiden voyage of developing for Sphere v2 (Specs doesn't count as that was gradually ported from v1 as-needed and isn't even a full conversion), I have to say developing for the new engine is a joy. The event loop is great, especially when combined with async-await, it's easy to coordinate concurrent actions and makes the engine very powerful as a result. Many things that were very awkward to do with the v1 API are trivially easy with v2. It's awesome.
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Reply #6 – September 05, 2018, 08:27:16 pm
The project is a great idea and sounds like it's off to a great start. It'll be nice to see more games released using the new engine! Personally, to be able to view the code showing off all of the new capabilities would be very interesting. Best of luck!
Finally started working on the field in earnest today, I've been trying to integrate @Rhuan's map engine but kept running into bugs. He was quick about fixing them though so it's all good.
My progress consists of a single map (drawn with shitty placeholder tiles, naturally ) with a teleport trigger at the top that sends you to another unfinished map with some music... that you then can't escape from. So nothing special yet, but it's progress at least. Next up: Fending off the pig with this broomsti*MUNCH*
Word to the wise: Do not attempt to fight off a giant eaty pig with a broomstick. The broom will get eaten along with everything in a hundred-mile radius, which naturally includes you (unless you happen to have a broom that's over 100 miles long).
In less pig-eaty news, OFF is coming along slowly but steadily. The first conversation with the Judge is implemented; next up I need to implement the first few puzzles and eventually the tutorial battle with the Judge.
It's so much easier to make a game when I can use pre-made assets and in general can use the original game as a template. I just keep RPG Maker 2003 open and cross-reference it when coding the cutscenes.
I might post screenshots later.
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Former Fairview Township Police officer loses appeal of federal conviction for stealing drug money
Posted 10:11 AM, May 31, 2019, by Keith Schweigert
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YORK COUNTY — A former Fairview Township Police officer serving time in federal prison for stealing cash while on duty had his felony theft convictions upheld by a federal appeals court this week.
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African Traditions
Despite the seemingly inexorable march of the global corporate beer industry, many African brewing traditions persist in the hands of rural women who brew at home. Throughout Africa, most brewing and drinking still occurs in the home, among family, and within the boundaries of community standards. Four times more homebrew than commercial-industrial brews is sold in Africa, which doesn’t even include the great volumes of homebrewed beer consumed outside the cash economy. Women across sub-Saharan Africa use native grains like sorghum, millet, and teff, to brew drinks like rammoora, farsi, changaa, tella, and countless other uniquely African beer styles, often using homegrown and hand-malted brewing grains and handpicked herbs and spices.
This brewing provides a degree of economic empowerment to millions of African women. A study conducted in Uganda and Kenya found that 80% of the women included in the survey brewed beer, and about half of them had brewed beer for sale at some point in their lives. According to the survey, very few men brewed, and virtually none of them ever brewed beer for sale. Yet, men were found to account for a majority of the consumption. In this way, home-brewing beer accords women a degree of social and economic influence, helping to maintain a peaceful balance of power between the genders, providing women with a source of income and respect within the household.
Unfortunately, brewing traditions like these mostly go unnoticed and undervalued by scholars, economists, and policymakers. The little attention traditional drinks do attract tends to be negative. The development community typically regards traditional drinks as distasteful novelties at best and as destructive distractions at worst. Aid workers in Kenya, for example, have called for the prosecution of women who brew changaa, for reasons of public health and sanitation. Meanwhile, Kenya’s main industrial brewing company has become part-owned by Diageo, the world’s largest beer, wine, and spirits company, and SABMiller, the world’s third largest brewing concern.
Africans, especially men, are fleeing the countryside in large numbers, seeking opportunity in cities. Those who find small success in the cash economy reach for a gleaming bottle of industrial beer as a low-cost symbol of their participation in the modern economy. Many more, though, find grinding poverty in Africa’s megalopolises. Even the relatively inexpensive bottle of lager is out of reach for the many who resort to cheaper, highly potent modern versions of traditional drinks in desperate attempts to escape urban misery. Scenes of preProhibition America and gin-soaked 18 th -century London are today being replayed in urbanizing Africa. Hard drinking is on the increase, while community and family disintegrate under the pressures of globalization.
Such scenes are found around the developing world. In South America, chicha, a traditional corn-based beer brewed by women, has become relatively scarce as industrial beers produced by global brewing companies fill the market created by the same urbanizing and modernization pressures felt in Africa. Traditional rice beers in Asia are only hanging on as western-owned brewing corporations move into the market. China in particular is at risk of losing its brewing traditions as foreign companies such as InBev buy up local breweries, temporarily making industrial beers cheaper and more attractive than traditional beers.
Regulations are necessary to prevent the predatory practices of corporate brewers and to preserve the role that indigenous brews play in sustainable development. Indeed, there is a long and noble tradition of just such regulatory practices that stretches back into the very origins of human society.
Effervescent Growth
The Sumerians, circa 4,000 BCE, established the world’s first urban trading society by growing surpluses of barley and emmer wheat, which they fermented into copious supplies of beer for their own consumption as well as for trade with neighbors. Sumerians, and their successors the Babylonians, adopted policies to promote and regulate the beer trade, such as the Code of Hammurabi, which dealt specifically with matters regarding beer (and the agriculture that made it possible), fixing a fair price per unit, and setting daily rations for workers, civil servants, and religious ministers. It was a recipe for success. Sumer and Babylonia thrived for over three millennia.
Egypt followed suit, constructing a powerful civilization fueled largely by promoting the growth of brewing and trading beer. The pyramids were essentially vast beer storerooms, symbolizing Egypt’s power over its neighbors, with whom they conducted large-scale trade in grains and beer. Brewing, and its regulation, eventually spread north into Europe where it became progressively more controlled and regulated by church and state.
In 1516, the city of Ingolstadt issued the Reinheitsgebot, or purity law, governing the production and sale of beer in the Duchy of Bavaria. The law effectively excluded foreign and small-scale domestic brewers by banning the ingredients customarily used in their beers. This law was finally repealed as the result of a 1987 European Court ruling, by which time it had become the world’s longest-standing food regulation. During the intervening half millennium, Germany became the world’s premier beer-producing country, in part because it had protected domestic brewers from foreign competitors.
Beer was similarly important to America’s success. The Pilgrims, who quickly adapted to locally available brewing ingredients, eventually became heavily dependent on British beer imports because their population grew faster than their ability to produce adequate volumes of beer. This colonial economic dependence became a key lever in the war for independence. George Washington himself devised strategies for the brewing industry to help loose the yolk of Britain’s economic enslavement.
Washington, whose penchant for English-brewed porter beer is well-documented, made the ultimate patriotic sacrifice when he supported the nonconsumption agreement, a bill drafted by fellow patriot Samuel Adams (whose name now graces the labels of America’s leading craft beer). The agreement encouraged the colonial population to abstain from imported goods such as ale and encouraged the consumption of American-brewed beer.
After the Revolution, brewers carried banners in victory parades proclaiming, Home Brew’d Is Best. Washington immediately set about crafting policies to stimulate local brewing, exclaiming: We have already been too long subject to British Prejudices. I use no porter or cheese in my family, but that which is made in America
In 1789, James Madison designed one of the first bills passed by the new House of Representatives to keep taxes low on beer production in order to trigger local brewing. Less than a hundred years later, in 1873, America could boast 4,131 commercial breweries, plus countless private home breweries.
The Return of T’ej
While both Europe and the United States currently support thousands of microbrews, their domestically spawned global beer corporations are destroying those same traditions in other countries by dumping low-cost product on the market and driving out local competitors. Fortunately, local and national brewers in the Third World are fighting back.
Consider the case of Ethiopian t’ej and tella. T’ej, Ethiopia’s national drink, mixes fermented honey with a variety of herbs and sometimes fruits. Historically, t’ej drinking was reserved exclusively for royalty, but eventually it became a drink enjoyed by all on special occasions. Female household heads brewed t’ej for weddings, naming ceremonies, religious holidays, and other celebrations. Tella is for common drinking, brewed from locally grown grains and flavored with an indigenous plant called gesho, which has been shown to have medicinal benefits.
The brewing of tella is still widespread, especially in rural homes, where women earn a modest income from brewing as an occasional trade. In the city though, industrial beers have taken root. Although all five of the country’s industrial breweries have been government-owned, the French brewing conglomerate BGI recently bought St. George Brewery in Addis Ababa. Although beer judges rate its product as by far the worst of Ethiopia’s industrial beers, it has nonetheless quickly come to dominate the market due to inflated advertising budgets and artificially low prices.
Partly as a result of this marketing, many urban Ethiopians have come to regard tella as hopelessly provincial. Urbanites differentiate themselves from their poor rural countrymen by choosing the bland foreign-owned, factory-made beer over the homemade stuff. The fate of t’ej has been even worse. T’ej is stronger than industrial beer and much cheaper than imported spirits, so it has slowly become the drink of choice for impoverished menthe same refugees from the country-side who seek economic opportunity in the city, but instead find unemployment, loneliness, and despair. Nowadays, t’ej is more often associated with excessive drinking sessions in debauched t’ej halls than with royal ceremony. Having lost much of its dignified luster, the quality of t’ej has also plummeted. Processed sugar often replaces honey as the source of fermentation, and chemical food colorings are used to approximate the yellow glow that comes when real honey is used.
This degradation of t’ej inspired Ato Dereje, a recently returned Ethiopian expatriate, to start a company called Tizeta T’ej. Dereje believes that it is possible for t’ej to retain what’s left of its respectability and even to regain an esteemed place within Ethiopian culture. His approach is to maintain strict standards of 100% honey formulations and to give the beverage an attractive wine-like packaging, with labels indicating alcoholic strength so that customers can choose lower alcohol versions. Dereje holds that t’ej must exude a sophisticated image, appealing to mature customers that can still recall the days when the drink held a place of honor at high occasions.
His line of Tizeta T’ej is now marketed through grocery stores and restaurants around Addis Ababa, marking the first real attempt to bring t’ej into a modern economy where it can compete against expensive imported wines and liquors, while promoting a uniquely Ethiopian drinking custom. His efforts thus far have proven successful, and he is now looking forward to the day when, just like bottles of merlot, his t’ej is exported around the world to connoisseurs of excellent, regionally distinctive drinks. As a locally-owned business using locally-produced ingredients for a traditional drink, Tizeta T’ej serves as a model of how indigenous brewing traditions can serve as both cultural and economic capital.
Dereje’s early success can be attributed at least in part to the fact that Ethiopia has been late to adopt policies that open its markets to foreign imports, ownership, and investments. Other African countries, which succumbed to the pressure of multilateral financing institutions and neoliberal trade policies, have not fared as well. Burkina Faso, where the locally brewed sorghum beer, rammoora, is forced to compete against a corporate monopoly created when the country’s only industrial brewery was virtually given away to the same French company that now has a foothold in Ethiopia’s brewing sector. Industrial beer can now be found in any corner shop in Ouagadougou, while rammoora brewers, lacking an infrastructure of support, are literally relegated to back alleys.
Brewing Solutions
As Herman Daly wrote in the September 2006 issue of Orion magazine, Globalization serves not community among nations, but corporate individualism on a global scale. So how might we protect local, traditional beers from globeerization? Daly contends we need a new protectionism that protects us not from efficient competitors but from destructive, standards-lowering competition. Emerging economies should utilize tariffs to counter-balance unfair advantages gained by countries that externalize social and environmental costs and rely on heavily subsidized agriculture and artificially low fossil-fuel energy costs.
Government-backed export investment and foreign credit, and huge agricultural subsidies, continue to help American and European multinational brewers enter and dominate developing markets. Industrial products compete for market share against traditional, indigenous beers that, when gone, will have taken important cultural capital with them. Domestic policies that favor small-scale, local production, just like the ones that now support the American craft-brewing renaissance, must be applied to foreign policy as well. Policies that burden small brewers with regulations must be reduced or removed, while tax incentives and public giveaways to industrial brewers are halted. Proven strategies can be used for promoting small business, such as low-interest loans and other community investments tools. Small-scale technology and structures must be prioritized in order to benefit the greatest number of domestic brewers, while subsidies favoring large-scale production and distribution should be eliminated.
What we stand to lose is more than just a tantalizing array of exotic beers. As is usually the case, women stand to suffer the most, since they will lose control over drinking when industrial products owned by foreign corporations replace their homebrews. If traditional drinks disappear around the world, the societies that produce them will lose a part of their identity as well as the intellectual property that can serve as a wellspring for future economic growth.
Chris O’Brien combines two favorite things: drinking beer and saving the world. He is author of the new book Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World, and serves as director of the Responsible Purchasing Network at the Center for a New American Dream.
Issues: Labor, Trade, & Finance
Regions: Africa
Tags: Africa, Beer, development, globalization, Microbrewery, Sustainable Development, T'ej, Tella
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Majāz aş Şafā’ Shaţţ: Tunisia
This page presents the geographical name data for Majāz aş Şafā’ Shaţţ in Tunisia, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.
Full Name (see definition): Majāz aş Şafā’ Shaţţ
Primary Country Code (see definition): TS (Tunisia)
First-order administrative division code (see definition): 35 (Tawzar )
Region Font Code (see definition): 3 (Africa/Middle East)
Unique Feature Identifier (see definition): -726759
Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 8.033333
Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 8° 02' 00" E
Military Grid Reference System coordinates (see definition): 32SMC1081671817
Joint Operations Graphic reference (see definition): NI32-06
Feature Designation Code (see definition): SBKH (sabkha(s))
Descriptive part of the full name (see definition): Shaţţ
A form of the full name that allows for alphabetical sorting of the file into gazetteer sequence (see definition): MAJAZASSAFASHATT
Full Name with QWERTY characters (see definition): Majaz as Safa' Shatt
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Miānpur: Bangladesh
This page presents the geographical name data for Miānpur in Bangladesh, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.
Full Name (see definition): Miānpur
Primary Country Code (see definition): BG (Bangladesh)
First-order administrative division code (see definition): 00 (Bangladesh (general) )
Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 88.566667
Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 88° 34' 00" E
Military Grid Reference System coordinates (see definition): 45RXH5884301256
Joint Operations Graphic reference (see definition): NG45-16
Feature Classification (see definition): P (Populated place type feature)
Feature Designation Code (see definition): PPL (populated place)
A form of the full name that allows for alphabetical sorting of the file into gazetteer sequence (see definition): MIANPUR
Full Name with QWERTY characters (see definition): Mianpur
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Menam Nioum: Thailand
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Full Name (see definition): Menam Nioum
Primary Country Code (see definition): TH (Thailand)
First-order administrative division code (see definition): 16 (Nakhon Sawan )
Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 100.266667
Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 100° 16' 00" E
Military Grid Reference System coordinates (see definition): 47PPT3562254597
Joint Operations Graphic reference (see definition): ND47-03
Feature Designation Code (see definition): STM (stream)
Name Type (see definition): V (Variant or alternate name)
A form of the full name that allows for alphabetical sorting of the file into gazetteer sequence (see definition): MENAMNIOUM
Full Name with QWERTY characters (see definition): Menam Nioum
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Isreal and USA test fire arrow 3 missiles, declare trial a success
by James January 22, 2019 0107
Israel and the United States carried out a successful test of their advanced Arrow 3 missile defense system early Tuesday morning, the Defense Ministry said.
Shortly before 6:45 a.m., a dummy missile was launched off the coast of Israel that was meant to simulate the type of long-range ballistic missile the Arrow 3 system is designed to intercept.
“Following the launch, the Arrow’s radar spotted the target on its radar array and transferred the data to its fire management center, which analyzed it and fully planned the interception. Once the planning was completed, an Arrow 3 interceptor was fired at the target, which completed its mission with complete success,” the ministry said in a statement.
The test was conducted by the Defense Ministry’s Homa missile defense directorate and the US Missile Defense Agency, with assistance from the Israeli Air Force and Israeli Aerospace Industries, which manufactures the Arrow 3.
The Arrow 3 system, an upgraded model of the Arrow and Arrow 2 models, was declared operational in January 2017. The air defense system, developed as a joint project with the US, is designed to shoot down ballistic missiles — like those Israel fears Iran may one day launch at it — while the incoming projectile is still outside the earth’s atmosphere.
“The success of this test presents an important milestone in the operational capabilities of the State of Israel in defending itself against current and future existential threats,” the Defense Ministry said.
The Arrow was launched from the Palmachim air base in central Israel and the trail it left behind was visible from as far away as Jerusalem, owing to the clear morning.
Complemented by a number of other missile defense systems designed to protect Israel from short-, medium- and long-range attacks, the Arrow 3 system represents the highest level of Israel’s multi-tiered missile defense network.
The Arrow 3 was last tested, successfully, in July as part of a broad missile defense exercise that also checked the abilities of the short-range Iron Dome and medium-range David’s Sling.
Before that, the system was successfully tested in February 2018, after months of delays and technical problems. In January, an exercise was called off because of a data transfer problem and in December a test was canceled over safety concerns.
Tuesday’s trial came two days after Israel’s air defense systems were put the test in shooting down a missile fired from Syria at the Israeli Golan Heights. An Iron Dome battery intercepted the incoming projectile, which the Israeli military said was launched by Iranian forces in Syria, apparently in retaliation for a rare daytime strike attributed to Israel on weapons depots in and around Damascus.
Israel responded to the missile attack on the Golan by pounding both Iranian military targets in Syria and the Syrian air defense systems that fired on the attacking Israeli jets on Monday.
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US Open Sectional Qualifying Odds – European Qualifying
Leave a comment Posted by jalnichols on May 25, 2014
The first two of twelve sectional qualifiers for the US Open will be held tomorrow (May 26th) in Japan and England. The European Qualifier will be held in England with a field of 108 – mainly European Tour professionals – out of which the top 12 will earn a place in the US Open. Odds of a golfer being one of those 12 follow.
Qualifying is difficult even for the best golfers in the field; it’s an extreme long shot for the worst of the bunch.
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How He Won: Brendon Todd at the Byron Nelson
Some quick stats from Brendon Todd’s victory this weekend:
On average, PGA Tour winners putt much better than normal on the weeks they win. Since the start of 2013, the winners putted 1.3 strokes/round better than normal. Brendon Todd putted 1.9 strokes/round better than he normally does, a massive 2.4 strokes/round gained on the field. That putting performance would rank 7th among 2013-14 winners behind Bill Haas (AT&T National), Tiger Woods (Arnold Palmer), Russell Henley (Sony), Jimmy Walker (Frys), Webb Simpson (Las Vegas), and Matt Jones (Houston).
On average, PGA Tour winners also play tee to green much better than normal. Since the start of 2013, the winners played 1.8 strokes/round better tee to green than normal. Brendon Todd is basically average tee to green normally and he played in 1.65 fewer strokes/round. That over-performance is fairly low for winners; since 2013, only Tiger Woods (WGC-Cadillac), Jonas Blixt (Greenbrier), Jimmy Walker (Frys), and Matt Jones (Houston) were worse tee to green. Todd joins Blixt, Zach Johnson (Hyundai T of C), and Travelers champ Ken Duke as the only two winners in 2013 not to hit more greens than the field. Todd hit only 60% of his greens compared to 62% by the field, as well as driving it six yards shorter than the field off the tee. This was not a tournament won with the driver, woods, or long irons.
His tee to green performance was almost entirely a result of his scrambling. I don’t have shot-by-shot scrambling data for the other 2013-14 winners, but Todd gained 6.1 of 6.5 tee to green strokes from his short game – including three hole outs worth over a stroke a piece. I suspect that is abnormal. Some level of scrambling over-performance is a necessity to win on Tour, but I’m referring only to short game strokes. Gaining over six strokes in that manner seems extremely high.
It’s important to note that short term performance in putting and scrambling is much more random than other tee to green play. Based on that, it’s unsurprising that PGA Tour winners over-perform by so much in their putting. In fact since the start of 2013 only Steven Bowditch (Texas) has won a tournament putting worse than the field; only four others have gained fewer than two strokes on the field through putting over the weekend.
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Aging Curves for Scrambling and Driving Distance
2 Comments Posted by jalnichols on May 14, 2014
In the past months I’ve posted about aging on the PGA Tour several times, including a general aging curve and an aging curve for putting performance. The general shape of the aging curve for PGA Tour players is a slight improvement from the early 20s to early 30s, followed by a period of relative stability through the mid 30s, and then a steady decline from the late 30s until 50. I assume from limited post-50 PGA Tour data and the paucity of Champions Tour golfers over 60 that aging continues to steadily erode a golfer’s game after 50. For putting, the curve was similar, but much less pronounced. Aging due to putting accounts for little of the improvement experienced in a golfer’s 20s and less than 10% of the decline experienced from the late 30s onward. The source of age-related improvement and decline is clearly some other part of a golfer’s game – either off the tee, the short game, or the long iron approach shot game. I’ve constructed aging curves for the first two components.
Aging Curve for the Short Game
I’ve calculated my own adjusted scrambling statistic previously which uses the PGA Tour’s scrambling stat as its base, but attempts to remove the influence of putting and difficulty of the lie to figure out which golfers play the ball into the best positions when they miss the green. I’ve described the calculation in this post. The spread in talent between the best and worst golfers each year by this metric is roughly a stroke. That is, the best golfers at scrambling gain half a stroke/round on the field and the worst golfers lose half a stroke/round. For comparison, the best putters gain nearly a stroke/round on the field and the worst putters lose nearly a stroke/round while the best golfers tee to green gain two strokes and the worst lose two strokes. Scrambling shots make up only 10% of a golfer’s strokes per round (6-8 strokes).
Unfortunately, this method does not include strokes where a golfer went for the green in two on a par 5, but missed the green. I estimate these shots comprise only roughly 1.5 strokes/round for the average golfer, though as many as two strokes for longer hitters and as few as one for shorter hitters. These shots are no different than scrambling shots on par 3s or 4s (besides scrambling for birdie rather than par), but the data just isn’t there to include them. So around 15-20% of the sample of short game strokes is missing. I’m confident this will not materially affect the results of this study.
I gathered data between 2008-2013 for which each golfer played consecutive seasons with at least 30 PGA Tour rounds. This resulted in 693 pairs of seasons to compare. As with prior aging studies, I used the delta method popularized by Mitchell Lichtman for use in baseball research. This method simply aggregates all improvements and declines between golfers at each age to see whether an age cohort generally improved or declined. From that data, a curve can be constructed.
That is not even a curve, but instead a steadily increasing trendline. The data indicates that scrambling ability increases linearly with age. Golfers under the age of 24 (34 seasons since 2008) performed around 0.05 strokes worse than the field average at scrambling. From there, golfers improved by around 0.01 strokes/season – a small amount, but one that indicates that experience on Tour leads to improvement in short game play. This finding runs contrary to any other aging study I’ve conducted.
I suppose it is not that shocking, however. Short game play involves a lot of technical skill – stance, position of hands, correct judgement of swing speed, club head position, etc. (in addition to strategy) – while not involving much of the physical strength that declines with age. Any golfer who can play on Tour can generate the proper amount of swing speed to play <50 yard shots. Not so much for the ability to generate the swing speed to hit 300+ yard drives or reach the green with 3 wood from 275 yards.
Compare scrambling here with the other component curves I’ve introduced. Putting generally declines slightly, while tee to green play (meaning all non-putting/scrambling strokes) improves only until around 27, stagnates until the mid 30s, and then sharply declines. I’ll discuss why I believe tee to green play stagnates around 27 next.
Aging Curve for Driving Distance
My catch-all category “tee to green” from above includes a wide array of shots: drives on par 4s/5s, tee shots on par 3s, going for the green shots on par 5s, long approach shots on par 4s/layups on par 5s, and short wedges on par 4s/par 5s. Some of those shots require a golfer to exert maximum effort to hit the ball near his peak ability (most drives/going for green shots), while most others require at least a full swing. In short, most of the shots contained in the “tee to green” bucket are going to be heavily affected by how much physical strength of golfer can exert. There are other factors certainly (strategy, precision, etc.), but physical strength is a large part of it.
The problem with that is the type of physical ability that combines body coordination with physical power – think driving a golf ball or hitting for power in baseball – begins declining as early as the mid 20s. This study from 2012 observed that while baseball hitters have tended to peak around 27, their ability to hit for power (home runs, doubles, etc.) has peaked at 25. I’ve observed the same phenomenon in golfers’ ability to drive for distance.
To measure the impact of aging on driving distance I gathered the Trackman data the PGA Tour has from 2008-2013. Typically the PGA Tour sets up Trackman on one hole per tournament to gather information about the club head speed, ball speed, launch angle, carry distance, etc. for the drive. I prefer using this data to measure driving distance because it places all golfers on an even surface. The hole is selected for whether most golfers will hit driver and the carry distance measures only distance in the air (removing the effects of firm or soft fairways. I gathered data for all golfers with qualifying number of Trackman readings (>20/year) from 2008-2013 (the extent of the data collected by the Tour). I used the same delta method as above to measure the increase or decline in carry distance between consecutive seasons. That yielded 696 pairs of seasons.
This indicates that a golfer’s peak driving distance performance comes from age 25 and earlier. Golfers out-drive the field by 6 yards before the age of 24, declining to roughly average by age 35, and then decline heavily from that point onward – losing almost 20 yards to the field by age 48. This is the exact pattern suggested by the baseball power hitting aging curve above.
But What About…?
Now, at this point you may be wondering how a golfer can lose so much driving distance over the course of their career and still remain competitive. However, this aging curve doesn’t prove that every golfer ages similarly and it especially doesn’t mean that we should observe elite golfers losing so much distance. Elite golfers are elite because they have overcome many of the age-related obstacles that derail other golfers. This curve merely shows what we should expect out of the typical PGA Tour golfer. Very few golfers survive to have the type of career Davis Love III, Jim Furyk, or Phil Mickelson have had. That is a direct consequence of aging; a large number of golfers simply do not age well (whether due to injury, lack of commitment to practice, or general physical decline) and find themselves off the PGA Tour by age 40. Below is a graph of three golfers – two elite, top-ten-of-the-last-25-years types and one above-average player. It gives you an idea of how even very good golfers decline in driving distance.
Greg Norman was one of the best golfers in the world in the 1980s-90s; he won 20 times on the PGA Tour and 14 times in Europe, largely by relying on his superior distance off the tee. 1983 was Norman’s first season on Tour with reliable driving distance data. That year at age 28 he out-drove the field by 19 yards – equal in performance to Bubba Watson and Dustin Johnson currently. Norman continued to out-drive the field by large margins, but his advantage fell to 14 yards (’87-’89, age 33), 13 yards (’92-’94, age 38), and finally 2 yards (’97-’99, age 43). Norman’s game couldn’t sustain the massive drop in driving distance and he declined from one of the best players on Tour in his late 30s to one who didn’t win a PGA/European Tour tournament after 1997 (age 42). He was only a part-time player from that point.
Vijay Singh was a late-bloomer on Tour, not becoming a full-time member until 1993 when he was 30. He out-drove the field by 14 yards that season. Even at age 40 he out-drove the field by 16 yards as he rivaled Tiger Woods for the #1 ranking. However, in 2013 and 2014 Singh has been exactly PGA Tour average at driving – a decline of ~15 yards over ten years; exactly what the aging curve predicts between 40 and 50.
Stuart Appleby was a very good PGA Tour player by 2006, winning eight times and recording top 25 stroke averages in several seasons. He out-drove the field by 10 yards on average between ages 25-35 (1996-2006). However from 2006 onward he declined sharply, averaging only average driving performance between 2006 and 2013 – winning only a single tournament and basically being a non-factor on leaderboards.
Applying Driving Distance to Performance:
Driving distance is correlated strongly with performance. Mark Broadie’s work has shown that for every yard closer to the pin your tee shot lands, you save around 0.004 strokes. That looks small, but it suggests that the absolute best drivers are gaining roughly a 0.1 strokes/drive based on their distance. Applying the 0.004 figure to the above aging curve means we should expect a golfer to decline by 0.12 standard deviations between 25-35, another 0.12 standard deviations between 35-40, and twice that amount between 40-50. In all, a decline in driving distance explains roughly half of the decline in tee to green play. The component aging curve graph from above is reproduced with tee to green game separated into driving and non-driving shots (“Approach”).
This shows that approach shots exist in a middle-ground between the largely power based driving strokes (which begin declining by 25) and the precision/technique based scrambling strokes (which never decline). This makes sense as iron/wedge shots with a full swing combine both power and precision elements.
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"Indonesian militants planned 'dirty bomb' attack"
A plot by Indonesian militants planning to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb was foiled when police raided the homes and arrested five suspects in Bandung, Indonesia. The militants were hoping to create "nuclear bomb" by transforming low-grade radioactive Thorium-232 into deadly Uranium-233. According to a 47-page Indonesian language bomb instruction manual found during the raid (named "Nuclear for Dummy"), the militants then planned to combine the radioactive materials with the homemade explosive TATP. Although this method would not have succeeded in creating a nuclear device, the bomb could have acted as a "dirty bomb" to disperse radioactive material when it exploded.
A spokesman for the Indonesian national police, Inspector General Setyo Wasisto, did not confirm or deny the plot to construct the nuclear device, although he did say that the device would have been more potent than the two bombs made from TATP that killed three police in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, in May.
From Reuters. Full story here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-security/exclusive-indonesian-militants-planned-dirty-bomb-attack-sources-idUSKCN1B51FW
"Police dog opens gate with injured paw to rescue injured partner"
A deputy in Colorado was rescued by his canine partner after a 1 a.m. trespassing call escalated into a fight with a suspect. Deputy Gabriel Garcia was talking to a suspect when the suspect jumped a fence to run away. The deputy chased the man and became separated from his K-9, Lex, and a fight ensured. Lex, a 3-year old Belgian Malinois, managed to unlatch a gate with his paw and come to the rescue of his handler. The suspect was apprehended and is currently under arrest and charged with attempted first-degree murder and assault in the attack of the deputy.
From CBS News. Full story here: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/k-9-unlatches-gate-with-paw-to-save-injured-deputy-colorado/
"Two arrested after French counter-terrorism raid near Paris"
Following a tip from a local craftsman, police raided a flat in the south of Paris on Wednesday and found the chemicals necessary to make TATP, used in the Manchester, Brussels, and Paris bombings. The police also found several gas bottles. Two people were arrested.
From Reuters. Full story here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-security/two-arrested-after-french-counter-terrorism-raid-near-paris-idUSKCN1BH1S0
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Shock!!! 20 Year Old Girl Allegedly Bites Off Boyfriend’s Manhood
Jul 15, 2019 GBAMLOG 2 Comments
20 year old lady has been arrested by the Police after she allegedly bites off her boyfriend’s manhood in Lagos.
The lady identified as Blessing John has been arrested by the Police in Lagos for allegedly biting off the manhood of her boy friend, identified as Johnson while trying to escape from being raped.
According to NAN, Blessing, who is being detained at the Lagos State Criminal Intelligence Investigation Department (SCIID), Panti, Yaba, claims she was in pain when she committed the act.
“Johnson is my boy friend; he works as a hotel manager. We have been dating for six months and he had promised to help me with my Curriculum Vitae (CV), when he asked me to meet him at his friend’s place on July 5 at Surulere.
“I called him to confirm if he had his C.V. with him as he had told me that I would just edit and add my personal information.
“He said he had it with him, so, I proceeded to his place with the intention of getting the C.V. and leaving early so that I can use it the next day.
“When I got to his friend’s place, we went to a bar around there where he and his friend had a drink. They then asked me to go with them to their brother’s place which I declined, saying I have to be home early,” she said.
“We all went home together where his friend gathered some stuffs and we saw him off after which we returned to his place. When I asked him for the C.V., he said he didn’t bring it and I told him I was leaving.
“He got angry and said why will I just come and go like that. So, I told him what is the point of waiting, since I was not able to get what I came for.
“He tried taking my clothes off which I refused and he slapped me twice. He took off his clothes and was putting on boxers and singlet while he held on to my breast to pin me down.”
She said that at point, she held on to his manhood and told him to leave me but he refused.
“I told him I was on my menstrual period and that he should wait until Sunday but he insisted on checking.
“Usually, we see more than once in a week but the last time I saw him was a week ago. In fact, I was with him when I started having the menstrual pains. I was surprised he didn’t believe me.
“Johnson insisted on having sex with me and when I refused, he hit me on my back, I was so pained that I bit his manhood. I didn’t mean to harm him,” she said.
Blessing added that she rushed Johnson to a private hospital in Surulere where the doctor requested for the presence of a family member or the police before Johnson could be treated.
“There was no one to call as my father is late and my mother is in the village. I called Johnson’s relatives but they refused to show up. The hospital had to call the police and I was arrested.
“I didn’t mean to harm Johnson; I am not a violent person. Even my mother will feel bad when she hears about this. I am sure she will be trying to reach me but my SIM card is blocked,” the lady said.
Source: lailasnews.com
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Must read: JUSTIN BEIBER CHALLENGES TOM CRUISE TO A FIGHT
Justin Bieber thinks he can take Tom Cruise in a fight.
I wanna challenge Tom Cruise to fight in the octagon. Tom if you dont take this fight your scared and you will never live it down. Who is willing to put on the fight? @danawhite ?
— Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) June 10, 2019
“I wanna challenge Tom Cruise to fight in the octagon,” Bieber tweeted. “Tom if you dont take this fight your scared and you will never live it down. Who is willing to put on the fight? @danawhite?”
source : CNN NEWS
Dana White is the head of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which is the world’s largest mixed martial arts (MMA) organization.
According to the UFC site, MMA is “a full-contact combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques and skills from a mixture of other combat sports to be used in competition.”
No one seems to know why Bieber, 25, wants to take on the 56-year-old actor, and reps for both men have not responded to request for comment from CNN.
I think he just streamed Top Gun for the 1st time last night, and thinks Tom’s 26.
— dre nee (@MotownDR) June 10, 2019
I think Tom cruise may be able to mess Bieber up
— Theodore Buttons (@TheodoreButtonz)June 10, 2019
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— Kyle King 🚫👖 (@KyleKingOnAir) June 10, 2019
“I think he just streamed Top Gun for the 1st time last night, and thinks Tom’s 26,” one person tweeted.
If Tom Cruise is man enough to accept this challenge,
McGregor Sports and Entertainment will host the bout.
Does Cruise have the sprouts to fight, like he does in the movies?
Stay tuned to find out! https://t.co/TxsH9KUyFg
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA)June 10, 2019
“If Tom Cruise is man enough to accept this challenge, McGregor Sports and Entertainment will host the bout,” McGregor tweeted. “Does Cruise have the sprouts to fight, like he does in the movies? Stay tuned to find out!”
Stupid Man Gets A Wonderful Beating As He Kisses Another Man’s GF On Her Breasts (Video)
A guitarist playing in the streets has been dealt with severely for kissing another man’s beautiful girlfriend on the chest in public.
The man was playing with his guitar outside, the lady felt entertained went to drop money for him.
The guitarist then grabbed the lady and kissed her chest, then all hell broke loose.
Watch and download this video.
Source: Tunde Ednut
Entertainment, Gists
WOW!!! John Cena JOINS THE FAST AND FURIOUS 9 FAMILY
Jun 8, 2019 GBAMLOG Leave a comment
The Fast & Furious family is expanding!
John Cena is the latest star to join the popular film franchise and ninth installment, which he confirmed on Twitter.
source : people magazine, twitter
“For nearly 20 years, the Fast Franchise has entertained fans and created some of the biggest cinematic moments in history. It’s an incredible honor to join this franchise and this family,” he wrote while retweeting a story by Deadline.
While Cena’s role in the film is being kept under wraps, the actor, 42, will star opposite veterans Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez, both of whom are reprising their roles as Dom Toretto and Letty Ortiz.
Jordana Brewster is also set to return as Mia Toretto, Dom’s sister, as well as Tyrese Gibson in the role of Roman Pearce.
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For nearly 20 years, the Fast Franchise has entertained fans and created some of the biggest cinematic moments in history. It’s an incredible honor to join this franchise and this family.
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John Cena Officially Joins ‘Fast & Furious 9’ https://deadline.com/2019/06/john-cena-officially-joins-fast-furious-9-1202629115/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter …
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The news comes after Rodriguez revealed she would return to the film franchise after previously throwing her participation into question.
Rodriguez threatened to walk away in June 2017, calling for a female writer to work on the next film “or I just might have to say goodbye,” she wrote on Instagram at the time.
But while at the Bloomberg Equality Summit in London last month, the actress revealed Universal Pictures agreed with her request and hired a female writer.
“Yeah, I’m gonna do 9,” Rodriguez confirmed. “Donna [Langley, Chairman of Universal Pictures] came on board, the woman came on board at the studio, and agreed to have that female voice on board so the guys aren’t basically interpreting that female voice on paper. ‘Cause it’s annoying, I rewrite all my stuff! I’m tired of being a writer and an actress, you know? It’s kind of cool that I had that freedom, but it’s frivolous.”
Big Brother NAIJA begins June 30th
The highly anticipated fourth season of the Big Brother Naija reality show will premiere on June 30.
News Agency of Nigeria reports that the announcement was made by DStv on Monday through their Twitter handle @DStvng.
source: punch entertainment, NAN
They wrote, “Okay! We can’t wait any more! #BBNaija2019 storms your screens on June 30th!”
Although the theme for the upcoming season has not been revealed, Multichoice has been teasing the show with posters that read, “spicy hot”.
READ ALSO : Woman allegedly conspires with three others to kidnap husband
In January, Mr John Ugbe, the Chief Executive Officer of MultiChoice Nigeria revealed that the show will take place in Nigeria for the first time since its return.
NAN reports that in February, auditions were held in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Warri, Ibadan, Benin and Enugu.
The first season of the show first aired in 2006. This was followed by ‘See Gobe’ in 2017 which was won by Efe Ejeba. In 2018, Miracle Ikechukwu won ‘Double Wahala’.
NAN reports that ex-housemate and perennial host, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu will return to host the show.
LIL KESH ACQUIRES NEW MERCEDES BENZ
A popular Nigerian rap act recently rewarded himself with a multi-million naira luxury automobile and he made sure to show off to his fans and followers on social media.
The young rapper identified as Lil Kesh shared a series of photos on his Instagram page in which he was spotted striking a pose with his brand new whip.
He accompanied his caption with a little thank you message for his car dealership for fixing him up with a good car.
Sharing the post Lil Kesh said: “So my baby chikito cut off some of her dreads and gave to me to add to mine, that’s the best birthday gift ever ❤️ you mom, shouts to my reliable auto dealer @2502_autoworld for the new new”
See his post below:
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Singer Jaywon and female footballer Asisat Oshola joined some of his followers in the comment section to congratulate the young artist for his new whip. See comments below:
jaywonjuwonlo: Congratulations brother
tosinkuzzy: Congratulations bro but still waiting for that jam to be drop…the one with mayorkun
asisat_oshoala: Keshi
stephen_earth: More blessings kesh
youngsurveyor01: Congratulations Mr YAGI
swapon_fresh_: Congrats and more blessing.. ❤️❤️Keshi
SHOCKING: BRIDE heart broken, Groom calls off Wedding on wedding day
Cancellation of wedding ceremonies on the day of the event seems to be an unbecoming trend that many intending couples are committing to lately.
source : naijanews
A social media user who was currently a wedding guest shared yet again, another worrisome story of a groom who arrived at the venue for his white wedding ceremony with an announcement that the ceremony has been cancelled.
The lady identified as @_haystar while sharing her experience on popular micro blogging platform, Twitter, revealed that the bride-to-be is from Cross-River state while the groom is a Yoruba man.
She said guests were already seated in the hall when the husband came bearing the disturbing news.
@_ haysstar further disclosed that the couple held their traditional wedding ceremony on Thursday, May 30.
“So today, we went for a wedding, got there, sat and we were waiting for the arrival of the couple. Only for the groom to walk in and announce that the wedding has been cancelled. I’m still shocked” she said.
See her tweet below:
When a particular user asked if the food prepared for the day was served to the seated guest, @_haystar revealed that nothing of such occurred.
See their exchange below:
Some other followers on the platform also reacted to the post
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‘I feel fresh, I feel sharp, I feel good’: Cuts for kindness as newcomers barber at the Mission
Shawn Dooley was happy to get a hair cut by Jamal Alattar Saturday December 22, 2018 at the Ottawa Mission. Humans for Peace Institution organized, for the second year, an initiative “Refugees for Peace – Haircuts for Kindness,” refugees providing free haircuts. Ashley Fraser/Postmedia
Ashley Fraser / Postmedia
Shawn Dooley ran a hand along his newly-shorn temples and jawline and smiled.
Then he turned to thank barber Jamal Alattar for his painstaking work.
“I feel fresh, I feel sharp, I feel good,” Dooley, 43, said after getting out of Alattar’s chair as the non-profit Humans for Peace Institute turned the chapel at the Ottawa Mission, where he’s staying, into a barbershop Saturday.
“Before, I needed help,” said Alattar, 24, and a barber both in his native Syria and since he came to Ottawa, where he also has a second job as a house painter, three years ago.
“Now I help people.”
It was the second year for the event dubbed Refugees for Peace – Haircuts for Kindness from an organization that has held events ranging from auctioning off Syrian children’s art to benefit CHEO to a series of blood donor clinics, the next on Christmas Eve.
By the end of the event supported by the Market’s Barber shop, on Dalhousie Street, the volunteers had done 70 cuts.
“We are a volunteer organization,” said Refugees for Peace – Haircuts for Kindness founder Dr. Jamal Alsharif. “We are doing something to bring the community together.”
The aim, he said, is to put smiles on people’s faces, especially before the holidays.
“It’s a time for families,” he said, adding that for those who may spend it alone, “we want to give them the warm feeling that there is a big family around them.”
Volunteerism is a way to both give back to a country that’s helped them and to integrate into Canadian life.
Many refugees benefited from the help of settlement volunteers and once on their feet in a new country, they want to pay it forward.
“One of the most important values of Canadian society is volunteerism,” Alsharif said.
“No matter if you are sick or healthy, man or woman, child or adult, you can volunteer and contribute to putting a smile on someone’s face.”
The son of refugees, he’d lived in countries around the world before settling in Canada and becoming, in the words of Volunteer Ottawa, a “super volunteer” who gives his time to a plethora of local events and founded Humans for Peace.
On Monday, the organization is rallying people to a blood donor drive at Canadian Blood Services – “we are celebrating Christmas by giving blood,” Alsharif said – after previous drives included one for Syrian Canadians in April and another to celebrate Canada Day. In September, they organized volunteers to help tornado victims clean up.
While would-be clients, from a shaggy pink-haired youth to a senior in a wheelchair, waited for one of three busily-snipping barbers, 11-year-old Adam Alsharif swept up the rain of hair as fast as it fell.
Dooley, who said he’s been on the street for much of his life and is now staying at the mission with the goal of finding a permanent home, said that thanks to the Mission he’s not just surviving but beginning to strive and thrive. Self care like a simple haircut part of having dignity and hope, he said.
“It feels good – just in time for Christmas,” added another Shawn, a 32-year-old who did not want to give his last name, after getting a fresh beard trim and a razor-sharp haircut, his first in a year. He went to check out the results and came back grinning.
“It’s uplifting to look in the mirror and see a significant change,” he said.
Ashley Fraser /
Postmedia
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The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
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Author(s): N. T. Wright
Price: $2.99 (May 9-10)
Today a renewed and vigorous scholarly quest for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of well-publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright’s lectures and writings have been widely recognized for providing a fresh, provocative and historically credible portrait. Now this paperback edition of Wright’s classic work contains the same original content plus even more insight with an all-new introduction by the author.
Out of his own commitment to both historical scholarship and Christian ministry, Wright challenges us to roll up our sleeves and take seriously the study of the historical Jesus. He writes, “Many Christians have been, frankly, sloppy in their thinking and talking about Jesus, and hence, sadly, in their praying and in their practice of discipleship. We cannot assume that by saying the word Jesus, still less the word Christ, we are automatically in touch with the real Jesus who walked and talked in first-century Palestine. . . . Only by hard, historical work can we move toward a fuller comprehension of what the Gospels themselves were trying to say.”
The Challenge of Jesus poses a double-edged challenge: to grow in our understanding of the historical Jesus within the Palestinian world of the first century, and to follow Jesus more faithfully into the postmodern world of the twenty-first century.
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IVP E-Book Sale: May 9/19
In this grab bag we have 6 e-books from Intervarsity Press. The prices that the publisher has provided are under each ebook cover.
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Be the Gift: Let Your Broken Be Turned into Abundance
Author(s): Ann Voskamp
Be the Gift, by New York Times–bestselling author Ann Voskamp will challenge and encourage you to listen to God and look for opportunities to be His gift to others.
The idea that even in the depths of our own brokenness God can use each of us to be a gift to someone else is powerful—that He makes each of us enough to give to someone else. Just as powerful is the realization that in becoming God’s gifts to others, our lives become more abundant: “Maybe the only abundant way forward is always to give forward.” Ideas this powerful need to be put into action.
Live out the messages in Ann’s bestselling books, The Broken Way and One Thousand Gifts, with Be the Gift, a practical guide that takes you through each day of the year with ways to bless those around you.
Featuring selections from The Broken Way and Ann’s blog, beautifully designed quotations, inspirational verses, and Ann’s signature photography, this gorgeous book will be an incredible gift to any loved one. It also includes pages of perforated gift tags in the back to include with a meal dropped off for an ailing friend or a pie baked for a friendly neighbor or even passed to a friend with a much-loved book.
One Thousand Gifts encouraged readers to live a life of thanksgiving and to chronicle the gifts from God in their everyday lives. The Broken Way reminded that freedom is not found beyond fear and pain, but within it. Now Be the Gift will unpack and chronicle the next step to really live in communion—opening ourselves up to givenness in spite of our brokenness.
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David C. Cook Weekly E-Book Deals: May 9/19
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The Orphan King (Merlins Immortals Series Book #1)
Author(s): Sigmund Brouwer
Publisher: Waterbrook Press
Price: $1.99 (Ends May 19)
The future of the Immortals is in the hands of an orphan
My greatest fear was that they would find us and make of us a sacrifice beneath a full moon. Now you, Thomas, must help us destroy the circle of evil.
The last words of a dying woman would change the life of young Thomas. Raised behind monastery walls, he knows nothing of his mysterious past or imminent destiny. But now, in the heart of medieval England, a darkness threatens to strangle truth. An ancient order tightens their ghostly grip on power, creating fear and exiling those who would oppose them. Thomas is determined to fulfill his calling and bring light into the mysterious world of the Druids and leaves the monastery on an important quest.
Thomas quickly finds himself in unfamiliar territory, as he must put his faith in unusual companions—a cryptic knight, a child thief, and the beautiful, silent woman whom may not be all she seems. From the solitary life of an orphan, Thomas now finds himself tangled in the roots of both comradery and suspicion.
Can he trust those who would join his battle…or will his fears force him to go on alone?
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Author(s): Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher: Penguin Books
The Reformation and Counter-Reformation represented the greatest upheaval in Western society since the collapse of the Roman Empire a millennium before. The consequences of those shattering events are still felt today—from the stark divisions between (and within) Catholic and Protestant countries to the Protestant ideology that governs America, the world’s only remaining superpower.
In this masterful history, Diarmaid MacCulloch conveys the drama, complexity, and continuing relevance of these events. He offers vivid portraits of the most significant individuals—Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Loyola, Henry VIII, and a number of popes—but also conveys why their ideas were so powerful and how the Reformation affected everyday lives. The result is a landmark book that will be the standard work on the Reformation for years to come. The narrative verve of The Reformation, as well as its provocative analysis of American culture’s debt to the period, will ensure the book’s wide appeal among history readers.
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Kregel: Relational Apologetics by Michael Sherrard vs. Urban Apologetics by Christopher W. Brooks
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New Leaf: Demolishing Supposed Bible Contradictions Volume 2 by Ken Ham, Bodie Hodge, Tim Chaffey vs. Keeping Faith in an Age of Reason: Refuting Alleged Bible Contradictions by Dr. Jason Lisle
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Sometimes I Still See the Little Girl in My Teen
The words come tumbling out, fueled by frustration and anger. Their jagged edges wound.
“I HATE you!” she screams. “I wish you were DEAD!”
There is a split second of disbelief as the words hang in the air. It’s the first time she’s used this particular weapon, and it digs deep into my heart.
She storms out of the room.
I miss the closeness we once had. (Twenty20 @Siasia)
My Daughter is Now a Teen
My eldest daughter’s teen years are approaching with a fury. As boundaries are pushed and emotions spill over, we’re both struggling to find our way. A simple hug no longer chases away her tears. She’s cautious about what she shares or how close she allows me.
Some days she tells me I ruin her life, or that I’m the worst mother in the world. Other times, she greets me with silence or disdain. I’m not sure which is worse.
It’s adolescence, I tell myself, finding comfort in a cliché. I comb through books on teenage brain development, searching for ideas of how to find my way down this path.
It would be easy to let her push me away, but I try to connect, and every so often the tension of our new reality loosens. There’s a glimpse of the softness, the laughter and the smiles that were once so plentiful. She amuses me with her humor, charms me with her exuberance, and entertains me with her wit. I cherish every moment, and anchor myself before the next wave of big feelings shatters the peace of our household.
I hear the sound of water running as she retreats to take a bath. We’ve reached a détente; each working through a tangle of exasperation, anger and guilt. I place a stack of folded laundry on her bed and glance around her room.
Her space reflects the gradual shift from childhood to adolescence. A sparkly clay heart that we made together when she was in preschool sits next to the phone that absorbs so much of her attention. The growth chart on the wall has been replaced by posters; the pink Barbie dollhouse by a beanbag chair and magazines. Framed photos of her friends line a shelf that used to hold picture books.
Most of her stuffed animals, once strewn in every nook and cranny, have been put away. There’s only one still afforded a prominent place on the bed: her bear, Charlie. He’s the one that accompanied her everywhere, until gradually, he too was left behind as she ventured into the world.
Where is my little girl? I feel like she’s vanishing. I miss the the tiny hand that once fit mine so snugly, the arms she used to throw around me, but most of all, the closeness we shared. It’s inevitable she grows into her own beautiful, strong person, but as we negotiate new ways of being mother and daughter, I yearn for a sign that somehow, she’s still my girl.
She comes out of the bathroom, tall and curvy, wrapped in her robe. The hurt of the evening lingers, but we exchange a long, tight hug and say our goodnights.
I’m dozing off when a floorboard creaks in the hallway. Savoring the sleepy warmth of my bed, I squeeze my eyes shut.
She walks into the room, hesitates, and leaves. She changes her mind and comes back.
“What’s wrong?” I whisper, as she stands silently at the door.
“I can’t find him,” she says.
“Who?” I’m confused. Is she sleepwalking?
“Charlie.”
Charlie. It’s been years since I’ve had to look for him. I get out of bed and help shake out her twisted sheets and blankets, even though she could do it herself. He’s fallen between her mattress and the wall, and I pull him out by his arm. He may be lopsided and worn from being so loved over the years, but it doesn’t matter. In this messy, unsettled time, he’s a reminder of simpler days; her anchor to the familiar.
“Thank you,” she whispers, crawling back into bed.
I pull the blanket up around her chin and tuck her in. She lets me kiss her on the forehead.
I turn out the light.
There she is.
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What Is the AMDR Recommendation for Carbohydrates?
Written by Erin Coleman, R.D., L.D.; Updated December 07, 2018
1 What Is the Percent of Daily Calories That an Athlete Should Consume?
2 Figure Out Your Carbohydrate Range
3 What Are the Carb & Protein Food Allowances for Women?
4 Calculate the Proper Protein and Carb Balance
Carbohydrates are found in a variety of foods, including grains, fruits, vegetables, milk, yogurt, legumes, nuts and seeds. The Acceptable Macronutrient Distribution Range, or AMDR, for carbohydrates is the percentage of your total calorie intake that should come from carbs each day. Carbohydrates should make up the largest percentage of your calories, compared with protein or fat, but the carb AMDR is quite variable.
AMDR Range
According to the Institute of Medicine, the carbohydrate AMDR is 45 to 65, meaning 45 to 65 percent of your daily calories should come from carbs. By comparison, the AMDR for adults is 10 to 35 percent for protein and 20 to 35 percent for dietary fat. Carbohydrates and protein each provide 4 calories per gram while fat contains 9 calories a gram.
Recommendations for Athletes
Getting 45 percent of your food intake from carbs may be too low for athletes and people who exercise regularly, because carbs are the body's main fuel source during physical activity. Brown University suggests that athletes should get about 65 percent of their daily intake from carbohydrates. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons recommends that athletes get 60 to 70 percent of their calories from carbs.
Grams of Carbs
You can determine your carb requirements in grams using your daily calorie intake. For healthy weight maintenance, most women need 1,600 to 2,400 calories daily, compared with 2,000 to 3,000 calories for most men. Since carbs provide 4 calories per gram, divide 45 to 65 percent of your calorie needs by 4 to determine your carb requirements in grams. For example, if you eat 2,000 calories a day, 900 to 1,300 of those calories should be from carbs, which is equivalent to 225 to 325 grams.
High-protein, low-carb diets are often used to help reduce calorie intake for weight loss. MayoClinic.com reports that low-carb diets typically contain 50 to 150 grams of carbs daily, which might not meet the minimum AMDR established by the Institute of Medicine. For example, you’d have to consume at least 45 percent of your calorie intake from carbs to meet the AMDR, which is at least 135 grams of carbs daily when following a 1,200-calorie weight loss diet.
Choosing Your Carbs
It's not just the amount of carbohydrates you eat that's important though, it's also the type. There are two types of carbohydrates: simple and complex. Simple carbohydrates are digested quickly and raise your blood sugar more than complex carbohydrates, which take longer to digest and keep blood sugar levels steadier. Most of your carbohydrate intake should be in the form of complex carbohydrates, which include brown rice, sweet potatoes, vegetables, beans, oats, and whole grains. Although fruit is classified as a simple carbohydrate, it also has its place in a healthy diet because it's also full of vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
Brown University: Sports Nutrition
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Physiology and Behavior: Relatively High-Protein or 'Low-Carb' Energy-Restricted Diets for Body Weight Loss and Body Weight Maintenance?
Erin Coleman is a registered and licensed dietitian. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in dietetics and has extensive experience working as a health writer and health educator. Her articles are published on various health, nutrition and fitness websites.
Coleman,, Erin. "What Is the AMDR Recommendation for Carbohydrates?" Healthy Eating | SF Gate, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/amdr-recommendation-carbohydrates-8411.html. 07 December 2018.
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THAT’S A WRAP: Zoho’s Zoholics roadshow takes Sydney and Melbourne
Business software suite vendor Zoho has wrapped up its Zoholics event roadshow in Sydney and Melbourne, featuring a host of experts delivering a range of keynotes and workshops for attendees.
The Sydney event saw 247 attendees descend on the Westin hotel during the 14th and 15th of June, while Melbourne had an attendance of 206 attendees at the Novotel Hotel on Collins, during the 18th and 19th of June.
The event had an emphasis on giving pundits a personal touch, with 203 one-on-one sessions taking place with Zoho experts over the course of the two events.
The two events were designed to give attendees the opportunity to learn, network, and acquire the resources to take their business teams to the next level.
As both events took place over two days, guests were taken on a long-form journey where they were able to hear about the latest Zoho solutions, get inspired by visionary keynotes and connect with like-minded peers who also use Zoho to drive their businesses.
Keynote speakers at the event included a range of Zoho representatives including director of engineering Rajendran Dandapani, quality analyst Kaushik Rajendran, lead presales engineer Samir Meharali as well as a plethora of technical and product experts.
The events also offered pundits the opportunity to get trained on the newest version of Zoho’s Creator platform, Creator 5, giving them a deeper understanding about application building, usage of basic and advanced features, and the end user-friendly scripting language, Deluge.
Along with the general Zoho product tracks, the event featured an exclusive workshop session for the Zoho Creator platform, with a special focus on Creator 5.
In the Creator 5 hands-on, full-day session, attendees were taken through different components of the product and by the end of the session, attendees could build an application from scratch on Creator platform.
The Creator 5 suite allows users to build powerful business applications on web, for custom business needs, and also give them the ability to have a mobile version of the application for iOS and Android, which can be white-labelled.
All in all, the roadshow proved to be quite a valuable event for pundits, with many left feeling like they’d been given personalised insight into how they can use Zoho to drive business value.
It’s certainly one to watch out for next year.
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(Media Advisory | For Immediate Release)
Continuing deployment of the InSideOut Initiative, coaches and leaders from more than 100 Indiana schools to gather April 30 with the IHSAA Foundation, NFL Foundation, and Indianapolis Colts for training on character education through athletic experiences
April 24, Indianapolis, IN – In August of 2017, the InSideOut Initiative launched in Indiana, in partnership with the Indianapolis Colts, Indiana High School Athletic Association, the Indiana High School Athletic Association Foundation, and the NFL Foundation. Since then, hundreds of coaches from more than 100 Indiana schools have gathered several times for trainings and workshops, finally developing a formal cohort focused on engaging in in-depth discussions on purposeful education-based athletics.
“We have been deeply inspired by the leadership and commitment of our Indiana partners,” said Jody Redman with the InSideOut Initiative. “The coaches, athletic administrators, educational leaders, association partners and the Indianapolis Colts have all been key to helping the Initiative take root in the state, and we’re thrilled to be on this journey with such incredible partners.”
On April 30, 2019, hundreds of coaches and school leaders will regroup in-person at Colts Headquarters—the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center—for continued conversation about how to sustain forward momentum and culture change in school communities across the state. Colts general manager Chris Ballard will be on hand to address the group.*
“The InSideOut Initiative is helping Indiana high schools reclaim the narrative about what high school sports are really all about—the growth and development of young people,” said Bobby Cox, Commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA). “We have been thrilled with the momentum in our state so far—and look forward to continued progress with our partners at the Colts, NFL Foundation and the InSideOut Initiative.”
Tuesday, April 30 – 10am-2pm
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*Chris Ballard will not be available for questions.
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Lego Batman Celebrates 80 Years of Comics Batman, and More of the Most Bat-tastic Toys of the Week
Andrew Liszewski and James Whitbrook
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Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of all the shiny new bits of plastic threatening our bank accounts that we’ve seen on the internet. This week: Batman celebrates his 80th birthday the Lego way, Nebula strikes a pose with a new Figuarts toy, and the most perfect Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles kitchen tool ever. Check it out!
Lego Batman 80th Anniversary Sets
Although he doesn’t look a day over 35, tomorrow is Batman’s 80th anniversary and you can help celebrate the crime-fighting billionaire’s life by padding another billion dollar entity’s bottom line. Lego’s revealed six new sets, but the four you’ll want to focus on are the $20, 200-piece Batman Mr. Freeze Batcycle Battle; the $30, 342-piece Batman Batmobile: Pursuit of the Joker; the $50, 489-piece Batman Batwing and the Riddler Heist; and the $100, 1,038-piece Batman Batcave Clayface Invasion. As with a lot of Lego sets in recent years, these seem worth it for the minifigures alone, which include Shazam, Mr. Freeze, Damian Wayne, and Kate Kane as the Batwoman.
S.H. Figuarts Avengers: Infinity War Nebula Figure
We’re not opposed to paying a premium for a fantastically-detailed figure packed with lots of articulation and accessories. S.H. Figuarts’ new Nebula figure, based on her appearance in Avengers: Infinity War, ticks all those boxes with an alternate face, swappable hands, and a pair of weapons. But if you want to pre-order one today ahead of its September availability later this year, you’ll have to cough up almost $60 for a figure that stands less than 6 inches tall through Bandai’s premium web store. That doesn’t include shipping, or any additional costs of trying to get this shipped out of Japan where it’s an exclusive.
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Mezco One:12 It Pennywise
Mezco’s line of Horror-themed entries into its One:12 line is finally getting its own take on the 2017 version of Pennywise, and it is suitably a) jam-packed with accessories and b) utterly petrifying. Aside from a fully material tailored costume, Pennywise comes with a series of alternate hands—including one already attached to his balloon accessory—four heads (one default, one smiling, and two monstrous ones with his mouth agape and filled with spiky teeth), a paper boat, a lenticular recreation of the painting from Stanley’s father’s office, and then just poor Georgie’s whole severed arm for good measure. It’s a lot! Pennywise will set you back a costly $100 when he launches in autumn later this year—and is available for pre-order now. [Mezco]
Medicom Mafex X-Men Cyclops Figure
Although popular among comic book fans for years prior, it was the 1990s animated series that really helped the X-Men x-plode in popularity. If that was your introduction to the characters, then you’ll undoubtedly recognize this version of Cyclops featuring his yellow and blue suit inspired by the ‘90s-era Jim Lee comic books. Medicom’s six-inch, $70 Cyclops figure, available starting in January of 2020, includes red sunglasses, a pair of optical blasts, and multiple visors with one even featuring a fun sizzle-effect.
Nerf N-Strike Elite Trilogy DS-15
In 1992 it became prohibited to make or sell toy guns unless they were brightly colored, or featured a bright orange tip so they were easy to distinguish from the real thing. The toy industry embraced these regulations with over-the-top designs, but recently we’ve been seeing toy blasters drawing inspiration from the real thing again. Hasbro’s Nerf N-Strike Elite Trilogy DS-15, available come this fall for $35, features shells that are automatically ejected every time the priming handle is pulled back. It fires three darts at a time, and has storage on the back for additional shells, but they’re yet another thing you’ll need to hunt down after your ammo reserves have run dry.
Diamond Select Toys Westworld Figures
HBO’s more action-packed series are criminally under-represented in the world of toys. It’s taken six or seven seasons for decent Game of Thrones figures to arrive, but Westworld has fared a little better with collectibles arriving well ahead of a third season that’s hopefully still en route. Diamond Select Toys has a Westworld three-pack arriving in August that’s available for pre-order now from the Big Bad Toy Store. But $75 might be a little steep for three, 7-inch figures that bare only a slight resemblance to their characters. Dr. Robert Ford is a decent likeness of Anthony Hopkins, but Dolores and the Man in Black are even more of a mystery than the show.
[h/t Toy News International]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder Cheese Shredder
If you’ve got $17 and a love of sight gags, Box Lunch has a “definitely not an April Fools’ Day prank” cheese shredder with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ main baddie’s head on top. Yep, it’s a Shredder shredder designed for cheese (perhaps for topping pizza?) and other soft foods; not for shredding Shredder. It stands 10 inches tall and features different-sized shredding holes on all four sides. Does anyone want some turtle soup? (Disclaimer: we have no idea how turtle soup is made.)
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Sandile Fakudze is a full-time degree student of National Cheng Kung University. He is currently doing his last year of the International Bachelor Degree Program on Energy which is offered by the College of Engineering of NCKU.
Growing up in Pigg’s Peak, a small town in Swaziland, Sandile went to Mhlatane High School, the country’s most prestigious high school. He completed high school in 2010 when he sat for the Cambridge International Examinations. Sandile spent a few months working for his older brother who runs a small computer shop. Meanwhile, he had applied to various universities in different countries to pursue his tertiary studies.Sandile was accepted in all three universities, and moreover he received a scholarship award to pursue his studies in Taiwan.
Coming to Taiwan was one of the toughest decisions he ever made knowing how far apart the two countries are located. Unlike, if he had chosen to stay at the University of Swaziland, this meant no home-visits on weekends. Regardless of all the troubles he would face while studying in a foreign country, Sandile decided to follow his dreams and in September 2011 he enrolled for Chinese Mandarin at Providence University, a Catholic institution located in central Taiwan. While studying Chinese he also had the time to travel around the island and meet new people. In 2012, Sandile applied to a number of Taiwanese universities including National Taiwan University, National Tsing Hua University and National Cheng Kung University. His first option would be National Cheng Kung University because his desired program, Energy Engineering is entirely taught in English there.
Fortunately, Sandile received an offer from NCKU and in September of the same year he enrolled to the program. Moving from central Taiwan to the south, Sandile noticed a few differences between these two cities. Food in Tainan is a bit sweeter than food from other places in Taiwan, a good example is the popular Taiwanese sausage. The best thing about living in Tainan is that there is a wide variety of food and the living costs are really low compared to the north.
During the past three years Sandile has learnt a lot about sustainable energy science and engineering. In 2014 he joined a research group led by an associate researcher from the Research Center for Energy Technology and Strategy of NCKU. He is currently working on energy-related topics as part of his senior thesis. After his studies, Sandile would like to go back to Swaziland to assist in the development of sustainable energy to meet the country’s power demand.
Sandile believes Taiwanese people are the most generous and he is very happy to have had an opportunity to study in Taiwan.
This talk is sponsored by Mr Chang. He wants to encourage people to be more passionate.
Production assisted by NCKU and IOH Helper Chun-Ting Chang. Edited by Jack Yang, Jessica Lee.
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PART 1：Study Experience in International Bachelor Degree Program on Energy, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan（English）
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Why Taiwan?
Sandile is an international student from Swaziland and studies Energy Engineering in National Cheng Kong University (NCKU). In his introduction, he used three words to describe himself: easy-going, ambitious, and a thinker. Graduated from the most disciplined high school in Swaziland, Sandile became a competitive student.
Swaziland has long-term diplomatic relationship with Taiwan, which allows students from Swaziland to come study in Taiwan. In Taiwan, most of universities have Chinese Learning Centers (CLC), where international students can learn Chinese. When Sandile first arrived Taiwan in 2011, he enrolled in Providence University (靜宜大學) Chinese Language Education Center to learn Chinese before starting his formal degree. The following year, he enrolled in National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and expected to graduate in 2016.
Why NCKU?
Sandile gave a brief introduction on NCKU and mentioned that NCKU ranked No.22 in Engineering and Computer Science around the world in 2014. Also, having 9 colleges, 45 departments, 82 graduate institutes, and 54 research centers makes NCKU one of the most prestigious universities in Taiwan.
Sandile decided to study Energy Engineering, formally known as the International Bachelor Degree Program on Energy, and officially established by College of Engineering in 2012.
The International Bachelor Degree Program on Energy is comprised of 50% Taiwanese students and 50% international students around the world. Sandile also mentioned that most of the core courses in Energy Engineering is similar to the core courses in Mechanical Engineering, such as heat transfer, thermodynamics, etc. But what makes the energy program in NCKU special are specialized courses in Renewable Energy, such as Photovoltaic, Wind Energy, Biomass, etc.
In addition to the academic strength, NCKU offers programs to help international students to transition to Taiwanese lifestyle. Amongst those programs is the Language Exchange program and the Buddy-Buddy Program. NCKU Buddy-Buddy Program arranges a Taiwanese student to buddy up with an international student to help the international students to get used to the life abroad and adapt to the local lifestyle.
Why Energy Engineering?
The primary reason behind Sandile’s decision in studying Energy Engineering is the country’s largest challenge – energy shortage. In Swaziland, both academia and professional practice has high demand of energy engineers to resolve major challenges in sustainable energy provision.
Aside from core courses, Sandile also conducted some researches and one of them was a research of Biochar in reducing CO2 emission from traditional energy harvest from coal. He also participated in a research in developing automated solar panel cleaner to tackle the issue of injuries and accidents during the cleaning process. He wants to utilize his knowledge that he gained in Taiwan to make solar water pumps for dry area during drought seasons in Swaziland with other students from Swaziland.
In the talk, Sandile mentioned that one of his favorite courses was Energy System Design, which was a 3-credit required course with a lot of practical works. Students who take the course will need to build a sustainable energy system or device. Aside from working hard on school works, Sandile also served as the captain of Energy Football team and took part in Energy Students Association.
Life in Taiwan
When Sandile first moved to Taiwan for school, he would only eat in McDonald and KFC because he is somewhat familiar with the menu. After he learned to speak Chinese, Taiwanese cuisine like fried rice and beef noodle soon became his favorite. In his years of living in Taiwan, he has adopted the local lifestyle in Tainan quite well that he can give suggestions like: riding a scooter would be much more convenient if you want to get around in Tainan.
In his gaining, Sandile would like to share three things with the viewers of his talk. First, the exposure to the new technology such as smartphones and Internet enabled him to learn more and faster from the Internet. Second, the cultural diversity in NCKU gave him many opportunities to interact with people from different culture. Last but not the least, traveling in Taiwan is one of the greatest experiences in Taiwan and he highly encourages international students take chances to get to know Taiwan by traveling.
PART 2：Preparation to National Cheng Kung University
PART 3：Q & A
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How To Buy A Sex Toy
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Dr. carol queen
May is National Masturbation Month! Perhaps you'd like to celebrate by purchasing a new vibrator or dildo? Whether it's your first time or you're looking to upgrade or try something new, we've got some helpful hints to assist you in shopping for a sex toy. We asked Lux from our sexy sister site Fleshbot as well as writer, speaker, educator and activist Dr. Carol Queen, of Good Vibrations, to share their expert advice.
Let's say I have never ever bought a sex toy, but I'm curious. Where do I begin?
Carol Queen:
First, consider what you already know you like, sexually, assuming you've had some experiences already. Are you more into clitoral and vulva stimulation than being penetrated by a finger/penis/something else? Or vice versa? If the former, try a vibrator made for external use — the Hitachi Magic Wand, the Laya, JimmyJane's Form 3 (video here) — there are many of these. (Plus even if you get something that could be inserted, there's no law that says you must use it that way.) If vaginal play floats your boat, you'd want a dildo or a vibrator that can be inserted — the Gigi, the Seduction, there are also many of these. A variant of this is G-spot play, and some toys are specifically designed to curve in and hit the spot. And if you're a "cake and eat it too" person, either get two toys — one for each hand! — or the a Twice As Nice style like the Rabbit Pearl, made famous on Sex And the City. If insertion sounds like a sexy thing, make sure you choose a size that you like. Ordering something too big or small won't give you your optimal experience.
Lux:
Think a bit about what your budget is. Sex toys can range from the ultra affordable to the ultra expensive —and you don't want to break the bank only to find out you've invested your life savings in a toy you don't actually like. As a general rule, a more expensive toy probably won't give you better orgasms than a cheaper one — it's just more likely to last longer, be made of higher quality materials, be rechargeable, etc. You'll probably get a longer lasting, better made toy if you spend more, but if you're just figuring out what you like, you'll probably be better off buying something on the cheaper end of the spectrum—and then investing in an upgrade when you have a better idea of what works for you.
Wait, so more expensive sex toys are BETTER sex toys? Or can you get something pretty good for a good price?
More expensive toys tend to be made of better-grade materials and very often will last longer than less expensive ones; in addition, they will often have extra-fab qualities like more vibrational strengths and patterns, recharging units, and such. One company makes vibes that buzz to the beat of the music on your MP3 player! But you can get a toy that'll make you perfectly happy for less, too — it may not last as long, but if you like the look of a less expensive toy or it's what you can afford, get it! It'll help you decide what elements you like so that when it's time to buy toy number 2, you'll have a better idea about your optimal ride.
You can try on clothes. What's the best way to "try" a sex toy, since you can't take it home and then return it?
Good Vibrations has always put demo models out so people can touch them and choose according to texture, hard/softness, and vibration. It's the one element that really makes live shopping better than online shopping, though a good site will give you lots of information, which is always helpful. (Good Vibes developed a Volume/Intensity scale to help you compare how loud and strong your vibe will be; it's listed on our website and in our catalogs.)
Most of the sex toy stores that I've been to have their wares on display, and you're allowed to play with and examine them.
• Find out how intense the vibrations are. A funny little trick I've heard: if you want to see how a toy's vibrations will feel on a clitoris, try pressing it to your nose (which, fun fact, is way more sensitive than your hands). It wont feel exactly the way it might on your ladyparts, but it will give you some idea of what you're getting into.
• Take a look at the controls. This is something that I consider super important — even though it doesn't get a lot of discussion in most sex toy talks. Think of it this way: when you're in the middle of a hot and heavy session with your sex toy, you're going to want something that's intuitive and easy to use. Personally, I prefer toys like the JimmyJane Form 2 (video here), which has three buttons — one to increase the strength of vibration, one to decrease the strength of vibration, and a third to toggle through the toy's different pulse patterns—but you may find that you like something different. Play around and see what set ups make the most sense to you.
• See how big it is. This one should be self explanatory — but keep one thing in mind. Because sex toys are made of materials that are firmer than body parts, a sex toy is likely to feel bigger than it looks. A silicone dildo feels way bigger than a flesh cock of comparable size (and, correspondingly, a stainless steel dildo of a similar size feels even bigger than both of those).
• See what it's made of. That will give you some idea of what it's going to feel like downstairs (if it's soft or hard; ridged or smooth; and so on).
• See what color it is. A lady should only buy a sex toy if it properly matches her outfits and decor. (I kid, I kid!)
Is it true that if a vibe feels good on your mouth it will feel good on your genitals? I read somewhere that if it's too hard/rough for the lips on your face, you might not like it other places.
Hmmm. I'm not sure this would be true for everyone. I'm just thinking of my friend the Hitachi, and no way would I want to brush my teeth with it…
It IS true that some vibrations can be too much for some people. If you find yourself with a too-strong buzz, fold up some fabric to put between it and your body; put your hand over your vulva and buzz the fleshy area between thumb and forefinger; or cushion the clit with your outer labia. FYI, vibrational intensity can come from the strength of the toy, OR the size of the area that comes into contact with your body. Counter-intuitively, the smaller the vibrator, the more its vibration might feel too intense for some, because so few nerve endings are getting all that vibration. That's one reason why the Hitachi is such a good design — though it's strong, the head is so large that many, many more neurons help spread the sensation out. It's also worth noting that a vibration that feels like too much when you get started may feel perfect once you really become aroused. Arousal mediates sensation in many ways, and this is definitely one of them.
Are there advantages and disadvantages regarding materials? Are there things you can do with silicone that you can't with glass ? Or plastic? Also, which can you use in the bathtub?
The most important consideration with regards to sex toy materials is whether the toy is made out of something that is body safe and (ideally) sterilizable. I know this sounds like an obvious thing, but there are still retailers who sell toys that are made out of jelly rubber, which can contain phthalates and are just not good for you. And even if it's phthalate-free, there's still a chance that it's a porous—and thus unsterilizable—material. Case in point: cyberskin, which is used in a lot of toys, can be cleaned but never full sterilized—so if you're using a cyberskin toy, you can't (for example) use it for vaginal and anal play unless you use a condom (in contrast, a silicone toy can be used in many ways—and even shared—provided it's sterilized between uses).
Silicone has a pleasant, fairly natural feel to the touch, plus it is non-porous and super-easy to clean thoroughly, and it transmits vibration well. It's a superior material for vibrators, dildos and plugs alike. It's more expensive to work with, so silicone toys will generally be among the more expensive in the store. It comes in different softness grades; some people might like a very bendy toy, others a more firm one.
Silicone conducts vibrations very well, which means it's relatively easy to turn a silicone dildo into a vibrator as well; something you can't quite do with a pretty glass dildo. I'd also add that, as important as material is, the texture of the toy is incredibly important as well. As those "ribbed for her pleasure" condoms have taught us, a little bit of bump can make a ride extra fun. Case in point: I thought the Twisted Rose glass dildo looked super boring...but when I used it, I realized that the combination of ridges and hard glass made for an amazing gspot sensation. Live and learn.[associate}
Glass and metal are completely firm (some plastics are too), and some love this feeling, while for others, it's just too rigid and inflexible. This is, though, a quality that makes it especially good for finding and stimulating your G-spot. Many toys are too soft for that.
Softer plastics have the same comfort quality as silicone but are harder to clean thoroughly — we recommend condoms with them.
Any dildo or plug can go into the tub with you (though I'd urge great caution with metal and glass ones in a slippery tub with tile — if you drop your toy you'll screw up both it and your shower!). Any vibe that's sold as waterproof can get wet right along with you, too. If you're not sure if as specific toy is waterproof, ask. NEVER use a toy with a cord in the water, like the Hitachi.
Some vibrators that say they're waterproof are often just splash proof, meaning that they can be washed with water without destroying the circuitry, but not submerged for any length of time. Bathtub compatible toys will generally note that they're submersible — I believe all of JimmyJane's toys (except the vibrators from the iconic collection, which aren't actually manufactured by them) fit this criteria, for those who love vibration while they're sitting in the tub.
How should one take care of a sex toy? Cleaning, storing?
Toys can be cleaned with special toy cleanser, or just liquid hand soap or a mild dish soap. I would not recommend the germicidal soaps; triclosan is very irritating to many people. Make sure the soap, whatever it is, is thoroughly rinsed off before the next use. Some toys are not waterproof and will need to be wiped off, not put under water. The easiest materials to clean are silicone and the hard materials like glass and Lucite. Store a toy someplace secure — a special toy box, a drawer — that ideally isn't going to get too warm; most toys today are made of fairly sturdy materials, but I've seen a cheap dildo actually melt in the sun, so try to keep your toys temperate, just to be on the safe side. If you can take the batteries out between uses, do so. Rechargeables should be treated according to their instructions; in some cases you'll need to run the battery all the way down before charging up again, so read your user's manual at least the first time you get ready to use your toy. Oh, and clean it off before using it the first time.
Sometimes a vibe or dildo will look scary, but be pleasurable — and sometimes a sex toy can be really aesthetically pleasing but not actually get you off. What's up with that?
Sadly, form and function aren't always intertwined. Some of the ugliest vibrators (like the Hitachi Magic Wand) were designed as industrial massagers, without erotic encounters specifically in mind—-and the ones that look pretty but don't do much are usually designed by people who care more about aesthetics than sexual pleasure (or, at least, assume that the people buying their toys do).
While aesthetics are very important to some of us, the nerve endings in your genitals don't connect to your optics! They respond to vibration (a separate nerve ending evolved for this! Amazing!), temperature, pressure, motion, and there are vaginal and anal nerves that respond to fullness. If a toy isn't the right size, shape, or texture for you, or have the vibrational strength you like, it can be super-pleasing to look at but isn't your most optimal toy. it might make a really sexy paperweight, though!
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Torchlight 2
By Dora | September 21, 2012 | Add to Favorites
Categories: action, demo, download, fantasy, game, hackandslash, indie, multiplayer, rating-o, roguelike, rpg, runicgames, torchlight, windows
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The Alchemist has gone mad and is leading an army of monsters across the land, leaving devastation and suffering in his wake. Old heroes don't seem up to the task of defeating him, and things are looking bleak, but salvation might lie in the form of a messenger with a destiny... and a yen for smashing things to bits in the most satisfying manner possible. Runic Games delivers a stunning, rip-roaring indie action RPG experience Torchlight 2, a game that improves on the original in virtually every way while still maintaining the addictive gameplay that made it a hit. Now with added multiplayer options, fuzzy-wuzzy friends, classes, and dude-dudette possibilities for each!
At the start of your game, you'll choose a class, gender, appearance, and, most importantly... a pet! Each class has its own advantages, so choose the one that most appeals to you. Perhaps the steam-laden engineer with a zest for heavy weaponry? Or the twitchy, feral berserker with the crazy eyes and penchant for random screams? Like its predecessor, Torchlight 2 controls primarily with the mouse. You'll navigate through the game world and decimate your foes all with the click of a button. Combat is real time and enemies are frequently both numerous and big, so you won't want to stay still for long, and give some real thought both to your equipment and inventory as well as the points you allocate in your skills and stats.
In your quest to stop The Alchemist and reduce all who oppose you to quivering chunks, you'll have to put in a lot of footwork. Unlike the original game, Torchlight 2 takes place topside and in a wide variety of environments for you to travel through, and you'll be traveling all over the world. From a secret underground slaver's camp, to the remains of a haunted pirate ship and beyond, and deal with everything from cult blood rituals to assassins, slime monsters, and giant bear clans. Plus, with multiplayer now an option, you can adventure with groups of your best friends, or even open up your game to newcomers over the ol' intertubes. Enemies scale in strength and damage depending on how many players are nearby fighting, so don't expect more friends to mean a cakewalk.
Analysis: With the controls and gameplay essentially identical to the first game, playing Torchlight 2 feels familiar, but less "more of the same" and more "what you always wish the original was". It's one of those rare sequels where you can tell the developers both listened to and strove to incorporate all the feedback and wishes from their players. The best word to describe it this time around is variety. Its huge outdoor environments are a welcome change after endless crypts and tunnels, and the amount of different enemies is pretty impressive. While you'll encounter redesigned foes from the first game, there are a lot of new and unusual critters in each area... including some pretty exciting boss-battles with huge monsters and screen-shaking special attacks. The new classes are welcome and a blast to play with right out of the gate, and though an admittedly small change in the grand scheme of things for players, allowing us to play as male or female for any class is definitely appreciated... especially when you consider it meant extra work for the team.
Other changes aren't as big, but just as welcome. Most quests will allow you to select from your choice of rewards, which is nice. Further, some sidequests are even randomised as to when and where they appear. Your pet can now run back to town with a shopping list of supplies instead of just selling off excess junk. Weapons and armor now have two different requirements, stats and level, so you can wield more powerful stuff at a lower level if your skills are high enough. Items will also be identified for you automatically if you're at a certain level, which means you won't need quite as many identify scrolls. You can even find people who can reset your skill points for a fee, so you can change your character's setup later in the game if you feel like shaking things up.
Of course, while there's a lot to do, it all ultimately comes down to killing things, since a bodycount is essentially your sole contribution to the story. Go here, smash a guy, story proceeds. But despite this and how ridiculously huge some of the areas can be, Torchlight 2 never really gets boring. Sidequests, challenges, and even secrets are sprinkled absolutely everywhere. It helps that the game is even more gorgeous, of course, but with so much to see and do it kind of puts the first Torchlight to shame. The scope is really impressive, and you can't play the game without really getting a sense of how much midnight oil the development team must have burnt to make the game grow so much.
Torchlight 2 is a massive improvement over the original in almost every way, despite not bringing many major gameplay changes to the table. It's still the same explosive, action-packed RPG experience you loved, only now they've let you outside of the box and given you a whole world to play in. The game is long and, depending on your chosen difficulty setting, can be a pretty big challenge if you're playing by yourself... I went for "Veteran" (*elite snort*) and find the game to be a steady, satisfying uphill climb. With more classes to experience with their own unique abilities, there's a lot of replay value to be had. Especially when you consider multiplayer allows for both LAN and internet options, so you can play with close friends or open up your game and find some new ones, bonding over the corpse of a slain behemoth while you both drip with chunks. Aw.
Big, beautiful, and more fun than ever before, Torchlight 2 is a remarkable achievement. If you love action-RPGs, be sure to check out the demo for this one. If you played the first game you'll appreciate the massive strides its taken, but even if this is your first rodeo, Torchlight 2 will deliver one heck of a ride.
Download the demo
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Mac OS X:
Try Boot Camp or Parallels or CrossOver Games.
bluegriffin18 • September 22, 2012 11:51 PM
Can't wait to play it, but I have a Mac. The first game was great on Xbox live, but they killed it for Xbox live due to it being too big. Still, looks great!
Kari Minger • September 23, 2012 12:12 PM
Love, love, love this game. The first was fantastic. The second is even better, somehow without making you not want to return to the first. I was afraid, after breezing through Act 1 in less than a day, that it would be too short, but Act 2 is really long. Beautiful game, smooth gameplay, lots of skills to customize, decent loot. Encounters are so varied it's amazing.
My only gripes are that I seem not to be making much money, so I don't get to purchase/gamble/enchant nearly as much as I'd like to. Also, spell drops are way too low. I foresee one of the first mods being for a spell vendor earlier on.
AbstractMatter • September 23, 2012 1:03 PM
Torchlight 1 is on Humble Indie Bundle 6 (including Vessel and Dustforce) ;)
And was I the only one to notice the site had malware warnings?
neo1973 • September 23, 2012 9:33 PM
I played D2 and both T1 and T2, and during all three games I feel like the economy is really broken. The only thing I ever used currency for was for potions or spells (T1/T2). I almost never bought armor or weapons, because a new drop is right around the corner, and I have yet to encounter a situation where buying that new axe or head armor was going to make the difference between living or dying in game.
I do like being able to stash stuff for your alts, though keeping track of that stuff can be burdensome. Also, unless it is a purple or gold shiny, it's not really worth saving (see above).
All that being said, I really liked the demo. It is a beautiful game and the mechanics and gameplay are smooth. I find the talent trees to be a little ambiguous, as well as the character skill points. It seems like all classes need all skill points, because they all use magic. Maybe I'm just not getting it, but it seems like melee should level str, mu's should level magic, rogues agil... but all classes have magic based abilities, so you have to spend points you'd rather put into str/agil to make sure your spells are worth casting.
Anyway, I'm going to buy it and probably waste way too much time loot grinding.
chrpa— Maybe you are on holiday, maybe you are planning it and maybe you don't have any. Anyway, Weekday Escape is here as a short break for everybody! Well, not so short, in fact. The first game is from Detarame Factory... ...
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June 10, 2016 June 10, 2016 mattpear
Feature Pitch – Ben Bocquelet
I had always wanted it to be 2D, 3D and live action. In my mind that’s what makes the show distinctive. The Gorillaz videos were a big influence on me in animation school. I just loved the way they mixed their awesome designs with photos or films. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen animation mixed with live action though.
Windsor McCay had a show where he interacted with his cartoon dinosaur back in the 1900s and there have been landmark films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which blew my mind as a kid.
The technology now allows for this kind of approach on a series scale. It’s really exciting to be part of this, and also that Cartoon Network committed to making the show in mixed media, despite the challenge of the process.
It gives it a really unique look, which we hope, gives it an instant appeal. I also think the live action element adds to the scope of fantasy more than if the show were solely animation, by creating a possibility that the world might actually exist.
It excites the human mind to see the boundaries blurred between the real world and invented characters.
The Watterson’s’ house and the Robinsons’ houses were filmed in Vallejo, near San Francisco. It’s a place, which has the type of 1950s/1960s houses where you’d imagine a family sitcom to happen.
Ben Bocquelet [1]
In an interview Ben spoke about his influences and reasons for using mixed media and why he does it, it’s really interesting to see just how passionately he speaks about it and how it affects his art.
Ben hasn’t done a lot of other work – Gumball is his biggest and main success, but he is definitely one to watch for the future!
I love this 3D ape/monkey character and how it works/looks with the 2D characters:
Mixed media films that have served as some inspiration in this project:
Augmented Reality – crazy awesome animation
Caveirão by Guilherme Marcondes
Gorillaz – Music videos
JUNK is the multi-award winning short film produced at London animation studio Th1ng by house director Kirk Hendry in association with the UK Film Council. [2011]
Hair despair – Student film from Freddie Elsom and Giedre Kaveckaite mixing 2D Flash animation and 3D Maya animation and models.
Award winning short film
An experiment to combine traditional animation and timelapse photography to tell a story.
Mixed media is commonplace in a lot of films – life action and CGI animation go hand in hand in big budget films, but the more mixier you get, the less there is! I think that this is something that is slowly changing – as artists and creators realise audiences are ready for more visual experiences and unlikely clashing styles can work cohesively if used effectively. It does NOT have to look like a mess! I think the above examples help to represent the versatility of mixing your medias!
I remember watching something that was a normal 2D animated show, and for comic relief a Sock Puppet is used for a random character that pops up – from what i remember it was very funny. But these kinds of things are not completely uncommon, the mixed media is used as an aside instead of for the main. I think it could have been stop-motion now, either way it was hilarious! I think there is a possibility to utilise this comic relief character idea for Mr Benn as well!
Mr Benn Animated Film Reboot Words:
MAGIC – DRAGONS – WIZARDS – KINGS – WONDER – COSTUMES – FANCY DRESS – HALLOWEEN – FAMILY – TOGETHER – ADVENTURE – CARTOON – FUNNY – CHARACTERS – TELEPORT – FANTASY – MEDIEVAL – GOOD VS EVIL – SHOPKEEPER – KNIGHTS
[1] http://www.themarketingsite.com/knowledge/17328/interview-with-ben-bocquelet-creator-the-amazing-world-of-gumball
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17j9FlXvUjI
[3] http://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-sound-magazine/best-animation-2014
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Ban VS, El Ahmadieh TY, Aoun SG, Plitt AR, Lyon KA, Eddleman C, et al. Prediction of Outcomes for Ruptured Aneurysm Surgery: The Southwestern Aneurysm Severity Index. Stroke. 2019;50:595–601.
Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) accounts for 80% of nontraumatic SAH and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Severity grading scales have been created, including the Hunt and Hess scale, which predict outcomes independent of treatment. Prognosis following microsurgical intervention not only depends on clinical presentation, but also aneurysm anatomy and comorbidities. The Southwestern Aneurysm Severity Index (SASI) was created to risk stratify patients with ruptured aneurysms for microsurgical treatment. SASI components include clinical features, imaging findings, aneurysm characteristics and re-operation.
By strokeblog|April 22nd, 2019|clinical, prognosis|0 Comments
Gurmeen Kaur, MBBS
@kaurgurmeen
Aguiar de Souza D, Neto LL, Canhão P, Ferro JM. Recanalization in Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Stroke. 2018
With the advent of the endovascular era for ischemic strokes, the role for endovascular therapy for cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) has been approached with growing interest. However, anticoagulation continues to be the mainstay of treatment for CVT.
In this interesting meta-analysis, de Sousa et al reviewed recanalization rates, clinical outcomes and recurrence rates in patients with CVT.
A total of 468 studies were screened, of which 19 were identified after excluding those studies which had pediatric patients, in which >10% of individuals had endovascular treatment and in whom anticoagulation was not used as part of the post-operative treatment plan.
By gkaur|October 1st, 2018|clinical, prognosis|0 Comments
Kevin S. Attenhofer, MD
@KAttenhofer
Ferrigno M, Bricout N, Leys D, Estrade L, Cordonnier C, Personnic T, et al. Intravenous Recombinant Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator: Influence on Outcome in Anterior Circulation Ischemic Stroke Treated by Mechanical Thrombectomy. Stroke. 2018
2015 was a big year for stroke. For the first time in 20 years, stroke practitioners demonstrated an effective tool in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. Mechanical thrombectomy (MT) quickly became standard practice. While MT was proposed as an adjunctive therapy for stroke in addition to IV-rtPA (IVT), many of the 2015 trials, as well as the subsequent imaging based trials (DAWN, DEFUSE 3), included patients who did not receive IVT.
The benefit of MT was similar in patients who received IVT and MT compared to MT alone in some trials. This has led some to suggest that MT alone could be a treatment option which maximizes potential benefit while minimizing some of the risks associated with IVT (such as hemorrhage). In fact, I’ve seen non-neurology physicians advocate for MT to replace IVT entirely. Still, others argue that IVT facilitates MT (higher rate of successful recanalization, shorter procedures, and shorter time to recanalization) as well as dissolving distal clots. To date, no randomized controlled trial has compared combination IVT/MT versus MT alone. A recent meta-analysis of the 2015 thrombectomy trials seems to support the latter view: that IVT and MT are complimentary.
By strokeblog|August 29th, 2018|clinical, prognosis|0 Comments
Muruet W, Rudd A, Wolfe C, and Douiri A. Long-Term Survival After Intravenous Thrombolysis for Ischemic Stoke: A Propensity Score-Matched Cohort with up to 10-Year Follow-Up. Stroke. 2018
Although tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) has been approved in the United States for treatment of acute ischemic stroke since the mid-90s, there persists a sharp divide between neurologists and the emergency medicine community regarding the safety and efficacy of tPA. Imbalances between the treatment and control groups in the NINDS tPA study, criticisms of the subjective nature of functional outcome scores, and allegations of conflicts of interest have all contributed to the lingering controversy surrounding tPA. I have personally encountered significant resistance and hostility to IV tPA from other providers over 20 years after its approval. In this article, Muruet et al. add to a growing volume of literature that should help the community neurologist assuage the concerns of fellow providers.
By strokeblog|April 18th, 2018|clinical, prognosis|0 Comments
Hilkens NA, Li L, Rothwell PM, Algra A, Greving JP. External Validation of Risk Scores for Major Bleeding in a Population-Based Cohort of Transient Ischemic Attack and Ischemic Stroke Patients. Stroke. 2018
You can’t discuss stroke prevention without talking about antiplatelet drugs. Drugs like Aspirin and Clopidigrel are frequently used by stroke neurologists as the secondary prevention treatment of choice for patients with TIA and non-cardioembolic ischemic strokes. However, we must remember that bleeding is a clinically important and potentially life-threatening side effect of these agents. Reliably predicting who is most likely to bleed would dramatically inform the clinician’s decision-making process and likely result in improved patient outcomes.
To that end, the S2TOP-BLEED score was derived from patient data from six randomized trials (CAPRIE, ESPS-2, MATCH, CHARISMA, ESPRIT, and PRoFESS). It is a 28-point score that incorporates readily available patient characteristics: Sex, Smoking history, Type of antiplatelet, Outcome (mRS), Prior stroke, Blood pressure, Low BMI, Elderly, Ethnicity, Diabetes. It was validated in the PERFORM trial (Prevention of Cerebrovascular and Cardiovascular Events of Ischemic Origin Terutroban in Patients with a History of Ischemic Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack Study). In this paper, Hilkens et al. externally validate the S2TOP-BLEED score in observational data from a real-world setting.
By strokeblog|March 30th, 2018|clinical, prognosis|0 Comments
Pan Y, Cai X, Jing J, Meng X, Li H, Wang Y, et al. Stress Hyperglycemia and Prognosis of Minor Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: The CHANCE Study (Clopidogrel in High-Risk Patients With Acute Nondisabling Cerebrovascular Events). Stroke. 2017
Diabetes is becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide, with over 30 million people diagnosed in the United States as of 2015. It is no secret that diabetes is an independent risk factor for stroke. In fact, mortality is higher and post-stroke outcomes are poorer in patients with stroke and uncontrolled glucose levels.
In some patients, a phenomenon of stress hyperglycemia is observed at the time of stroke. This is a relative increase in glucose during an acute critical illness. It is an ill-defined metric with no consistent definition in the literature. Previous studies have shown that stress hyperglycemia is a better predictive biomarker of critical illness than absolute hyperglycemia. The authors of this paper sought to determine an association between stress hyperglycemia and incidence of new stroke or TIA following index ischemic stroke.
By strokeblog|January 10th, 2018|clinical, prognosis|0 Comments
@NealSParikhMD
Tu W, Liu Q, Cao J, Zhao S, Zeng X, Deng A. γ-Glutamyl Transferase as a Risk Factor for All-Cause or Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Among 5912 Ischemic Stroke. Stroke. 2017
In light of an increasing interest in and understanding of the association between liver disease and cerebrovascular disease, Wen-Jun Tu and colleagues sought to explore the association between serum γ-glutamyl transferase (GGT) and post-stroke mortality.
In their well-designed and well-powered prospective, multicenter cohort observational study, the authors enrolled 5,912 patients within 24 hours of acute ischemic stroke. The study was conducted in China. They excluded patients with known hepatobiliary disease and alcohol abuse. Serum GGT level at baseline was the exposure of interest, and patients were followed for a median of 1 year with regular telephone interviews and review of death certificates. The primary outcome was all-cause mortality, and cardiovascular death (including fatal stroke) was separately adjudicated. Men and women were analyzed differently because normative values for GGT are sex-specific.
By strokeblog|October 25th, 2017|clinical, prognosis|0 Comments
Dankbaar JW, Horsch AD, van den Hoven AF, Kappelle LJ, van der Schaaf IC, van Seeters T, et al. Prediction of Clinical Outcome After Acute Ischemic Stroke: The Value of Repeated Noncontrast Computed Tomography, Computed Tomographic Angiography, and Computed Tomographic Perfusion. Stroke. 2017
A significant aspect of stroke care is the long-term ramifications with respect to a patient’s ability to manage their activities of daily living. Part of the physician’s role is to help the patient navigate this challenge to maintain as much independence as possible. Understanding likely outcomes helps set the stage for realistic expectations and goals. Today, the most commonly used metric to score outcomes is the modified Rankin scale (mRS) performed well after the index event (often 90 days).
In stroke research, follow-up imaging markers such as computed tomographic angiography (CTA) recanalization and computed tomographic perfusion (CTP) reperfusion are sometimes used as proxy measurements for clinical outcomes. In this study, Dankbaar et al. used multimodality commuted tomography to predict mRS at 90 days.
By strokeblog|September 11th, 2017|clinical, prognosis|0 Comments
Kim T, Yang P, Uhm J, Kim J, Pak H, Lee M, et al. CHA2DS2-VASc Score (Congestive Heart Failure, Hypertension, Age ≥75 [Doubled], Diabetes Mellitus, Prior Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack [Doubled], Vascular Disease, Age 65–74, Female) for Stroke in Asian Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Korean Nationwide Sample Cohort Study. Stroke. 2017
Non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF) is a cause of at least 15-20% of strokes in the U.S., with a 5-times increased risk when compared to patients with no atrial fibrillation. The safety, efficacy and availability of oral anticoagulants, in addition to Vitamin K antagonists like warfarin, have made strokes secondary to atrial fibrillation virtually preventable. This has created a need for accurate Stroke Risk Assessment and Stratification.
Various stroke risk schemas over the years have included AFI/ SPAF (1994), CHADS2 (2001), Framingham (2003), NICE (2006) and the relatively recent CHA2DS2-VASc Score, also referred to as Birmingham 2009, that accounts for congestive heart failure, hypertension, 75 years of age and older (2 points), diabetes mellitus, previous stroke or transient ischemic attack (2 points), vascular disease, 65 to 74 years of age, female sex.
Kim et al study a total of 5855 oral anticoagulant (OAC) naïve patients with AF to determine whether the CHA2DS2-VASc score could be reliably used for the Asian population, because the validation studies were performed in an all-Caucasian cohort and various Asian studies have previously reported ethnic differences in the conventional stroke risk factors.
By gkaur|August 14th, 2017|clinical, prognosis|0 Comments
As in adults, TIA heralds stroke in Children
Alexander E. Merkler, MD
Lehman LL, Watson CG, Kapur K, Danehy AR, and Rivkin MJ. Predictors of Stroke After Transient Ischemic Attack in Children. Stroke. 2015
Pediatric stroke is a leading cause of death and disability in children. In adults, stroke occurs in 10-15% of adults within 3 months of transient ischemic attack (TIA), but little is known about risk of stroke after TIA in children. In this manuscript, Dr. Lehman et al evaluate predictors of stroke after TIA in children.
63 children were identified as having a TIA at Boston Children’s Hospital. TIA was defined using the time-based definition: a focal neurological deficit that resolved within 24 hours. All patients were required to have an MRI within 3 months of TIA. Similar to adults, almost 80% of patients had motor symptoms. Headache accompanied TIA in 54% of children, but only 10% of patients carried a diagnosis of migraine.
After a median follow-up of 4.5 years, 10/63 children (16%) developed MRI evidence of stroke, 4 (6%) of whom had imaging evidence of stroke at the time of TIA, and 8 (13%) of whom developed new imaging evidence of ischemic injury not seen on the MRI done at the time of TIA.
Independent predictors for stroke after TIA included female sex (OR 11.3, 95% CI, 1.3-98.7), cerebral arteriopathy (OR 24.5, 95% CI, 4.0-149.8), and presence of autoimmune disorders (OR 26.5, 95% CI, 3.6-191.6).
Limitations included 1) small number of patients and therefore wide confidence intervals; 2) retrospective design; 3) use of a time-based definition of TIA thereby likely included cerebrovascular mimics such as migraine.
Overall, similar to adults, children with TIA seem to have a significant risk of developing a stroke. Risk factors for stroke after TIA include female sex, cerebral arteriopathy, and presence of an autoimmune disorder. Further research will be necessary to confirm these findings and help prevent the development of stroke in the pediatric population.
By strokeblog|December 23rd, 2015|prognosis|0 Comments
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A circulating soluble blood molecule (sCD40L) a marker for recurrent stroke?
Associations between metabolic risk factors and incidental MRI markers of small vessel disease: Results from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Back Again: Hospital Readmissions after Stroke
Biomarkers Predict Death After Stroke
Blood pressure variability and acute stroke.
Broken Cookie Cutter: The Natural History of Unruptured Intradural Fusiform Aneurysms
CHA2DS2VASc score as a predictor of recurrent stroke in non-AF patients.
Copeptin: a promising marker in risk stratification after ischemic stroke and TIA
Does Stroke Contribute to Racial Differences in Cognitive Decline?
Four Year Follow up of Transient Ischemic Attacks, Strokes and Mimics: A Retrospective TIA Clinic Cohort Study
Ischemia on CT is Predictive of Recurrent Stroke within 90 days for TIA/non-disabling Stroke Patients
Left Atrial Enlargement and Recurrent Stroke
Location, Location, Location: Distance from Carotid Terminus to MCA Clot Predicts Outcome
No relation of lipid lowering agents to hematoma growth
Poor collateral status independently predicts developing malignant anterior circulation infarction
Responsiveness after Hemorrhagic Stroke - Role of the Frontal Networks
Seizures After Stroke in Young Adults Are Associated with Mortality
The PHASES score for prediction of intracranial aneurysm growth
Time is Brain, again and again!
To treat, or not to treat? That’s the question
What results in neurological deterioration after spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage?
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Love your site! How do you go about not needing work visas to do photography for tourism boards, hotels etc? I see a lot of travel photography in foreign places, but in most countries its illegal to work there and next to impossible to get a work visa as a photographer. Any advice on reaching out to brands/hotels/tourism boards etc overseas without finding myself being deported for working in their country?
In March 2018, I traveled to Shanghai to give a lecture and a street workshop at Imaging Group, and recall doing some location scouting in Laoximen with Tamia Tang (my assistant). We met an elderly resident who had lived in her small rooms virtually all her life, and had been told that she would have to vacate them soon. She claimed satisfaction that the city would be offering residents alternative housing or monetary compensation as the weather in Shanghai was too cold for her.
The winners of the competition get a photo commission to an exotic destination – great experience and priceless exposure, as the images are printed in Wanderlust. Many of the past winners of this competition have gone on to become professional or semi-professional photographers. "We are often been approached for the contact details of certain photographers," says Lyn. "Organisations, such as travel companies or tourist boards, sometimes want to buy an image for their own use, or to see what else the photographer has in a similar vein. It can be a fantastic showcase."
For the Aztec and Toltec pre-Hispanic cultures, death was a natural phase of life. The dead were still members of the community, kept alive in memory and spirit, and during Día de los Muertos, they temporarily returned to Earth. Nowadays, people flock to cemeteries to be with the souls of the dead, and build private altars with photographs of the dead, and their favorite foods and beverages. The gatherings are often joyous in tone, and the families remember the lives of the departed.
Pre-2014, blogging was my main source of income. I made money on my blog via advertising and leveraging my audience. However, in 2014 much of this stream of income crashed for me despite my traffic levels rising significantly. Still, while the blog doesn’t really make much money any more, the audience I get on my travel photography blog (which draws around 1,400 unique visitors each day) guides readers to other streams of income.
However, now only about 10 professional street opera troupes are left in Singapore, drawing an ever-smaller audience of elderly people. The decline of street opera in Singapore was caused by its government's policy to replace dialects (such as Hakka, Hokkien et al) with Mandarin, and the slow erosion of its audience. The spread of television, movies and social media platforms exacerbated the disinterest of the younger generation in this ancient art form.
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Travel photography is a genre of photography that may involve the documentation of an area's landscape, people, cultures, customs and history. The Photographic Society of America defines a travel photo as an image that expresses the feeling of a time and place, portrays a land, its people, or a culture in its natural state, and has no geographical limitations.[1]
Long gone are the days in which being a travel photographer simply meant you shot photography for a certain travel magazine or newspaper. The world isn’t that simple anymore, and the level of competition in the photography world has never been higher. But still, I’m fairly sure there are more “travel photographers” on the planet now than there ever were — just check your Instagram feeds.
Commercial travel photography provides imagery for the $1 trillion global tourism industry. It might include photographing destination hotels and resorts, tourist attractions, scenery, outdoor adventures, local events, cultures, and customs. Images are used for advertising, merchandising, and print sales. With such a huge variety of subject matter, travel photographers employ skills across all photographic disciplines: portraiture, landscape, wildlife, architectural, reportage and event photography.
Devansh Jhaveri is a freelance photographer based in Ahmedabad, India. He has been published in newspapers across India, and his photographs were used as book covers for books by Penguin Books. He has been widely exhibited by Pix Delhi, at the Delhi Photo Festival, the Chennai Salon, and the Asahi Shimbun in Japan. He has also been part of two personal solo shows named Trespass and Distortions. His latest series "The Red Dress Project" was exhibited at the British Council Delhi and will be traveling to other cities this year.
Taking the first step: Approach the client with already made photos. Visited a nice hotel during your last vacation? The hotel’s management will probably be very happy to publish your images if they are good. Most likely they won’t pay you as they did not order the images from you, but they will give you a credit under the photo. But this would be a good start as you’re now published and have a working relationship with a known brand for your CV.
If a bucket list is about doing extreme things, hydro Zorbing is a perfect fit. The activity, which was developed in New Zealand, involves rolling down a hill inside a transparent, water-filled orb. “From everything I’ve read, it’s an enormous amount of fun. You’re sort of in a controlled bounce down a hillside when you’re half tumbling and half flying,” Zackham says. newzealand.com
Bizarre 'upside down' hotel some say inspired the Star Wars... The 'JetBlue effect': U.S carrier's introduction of routes... Wand-erful! Harry Potter fans treated to a brand new 'Dark... Hiker spends six months trekking the 2,650-mile Pacific... Guests are bound to like what you've done with the place:... The world's best tall buildings for 2019 revealed, with the...
Lyn's last tip is to have your own website. "Show off your work on Instagram and Facebook, but do ensure you have a good, easy to use website too. It should have some of your best work (with lots of keywords!), any specialities, and awards/competitions you have won, and your contact details. It's too easy to get carried away, add thousands of images, and forget the basics. Keep it simple."
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Every Game Was Terrible: The Year The CFL Failed To Conquer America
Imagine fall Sunday afternoons without the NFL. No tailgate parties, no televisions to shout at, no games whatsoever. Nothing. Now imagine you're an executive for a television company that had just agreed to fork over hundreds of millions of dollars for broadcast rights to a league that has no games to show. You've…
What It Was Like To Play In The Most Violent NFL Game Ever
After the most violent NFL game ever played, Marc Wilson sat on the team flight back to the West Coast, nursing his injured thumb. A Raiders team doctor approached. He had a secret message to pass along.
Deadspin! Up All Night
Deadspin Up All Night: Had Me A Real Good Time
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. I mean that with some extra special oomph this time, because this is my last day here. I start Monday as the Jets beat writer for NJ.com. Can't wait till Rex and Mark realize where I used to work. That ought to be fun.
Only in Philly: Dick Jerardi watches the city's six Division I teams at four venues in three hours Wednesday night. "I insist on a short detour down 34th and then back up 33rd to roll through Penn's campus and pay homage to the darkened Palestra. They could have made this a lot less challenging if all the games had…
The NFL fined Mike Tomlin $100,000 for getting in the way of Jacoby Jones's kick return. The Steelers were not fined, but they may have to forfeit a 2014 draft pick or have their draft position altered. In the meantime, let the memes continue. Please enjoy Tomlin tripping the Islanders' Andrew MacDonald.
Jets Fan's Drunken Tirade Is A Symphony Of F-Bombs
Seamlessly, this steakhead even manages to squeeze in a few chants for Geno Smith to tear his ACL. All without spilling his beer. It also looks like dude pissed his pants. A bravura performance of stupidity. This is like watching the id of every Jets fan.
Kellen Winslow Jr. Picks Pats-Broncos For The AFC Title Game
Which is not a bad pick! Until you remember that Winslow plays for the Jets, and that the Jets are still mathematically in contention for a playoff spot. This is what's known as picking with your head and talking out of your ass, which makes it a very Kellen Winslow Jr. thing to say.
Deadspin Up All Night: Twice
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. It's Tuesday night. There will be sports.
Prosecutors: Aaron Hernandez's Fianceé Lied To Grand Jury 29 Times
Shayanna Jenkins was indicted for perjury in relation to the Aaron Hernandez murder case back in September. Prosecutors have since accused her of destroying evidence. And now, in court documents, the Bristol County (Mass.) prosecutor provided even more specific details, alleging that Jenkins lied to the grand jury 29…
This GIF Of Pete Carroll As A Wealthy Robber Baron Will Make You Smile
Admit it: Whenever you watch Pete Carroll do his cocksure sideline strut routine, you can't help but picture him wearing a monocle and a top hat while swinging a cane at poor people. The original is from last year, but the photoshopped gif you see above has been making the rounds for a while. Larry Brown Sports…
Weird Animal Shit
Adorable Dog On The Pitch Adorably Interrupts Field Hockey Game
England played Germany during pool play today at the Argentina World League final when ... aw, look at that! What a cute doggie! Such a cute doggie! She just wants to play! Look at her go! She's free! She's free and she loves it! That's a good girl! Such a good girl! Who wants a belly rub! You do, don't you?! Yeah,…
It's your last chance to vote for this year's Deadspin Hall of Fame induction class. The full ballot can be found here. Polls stay open until 11:59 p.m. (EST). Vote, damnit!
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2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: "Go Fuck Yourself"
The Donald reached out to us last winter, thinking he was being gracious. Fuck him. Here's an illustration of Donald Trump with a dick for a nose.
2013 Deadspin Hall of Fame Nominee: Vodka Samm
Vodka Samm stumbled and slurred her way into our hearts back in September. She tried to jump on the field during a University of Iowa football game, was snagged by police before she could get there, had a .341 blood-alcohol content, and unashamedly boasted about it all on Twitter. Vodka Samm showed us how to do…
2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: "Horrifying Diarrhea Sludge"
There may be a regional foodstuff somewhere in America that's worse than "Cincinnati chili." But we've yet to find it. More than a few Ohioans took umbrage with our take on their "abominable garbage-gravy." But what's important to keep in mind is that these are people who actually enjoy eating the stuff. They're…
2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: Drunk Papa John
Papa John likes his Louisville Cardinals. Papa John allegedly likes his whiskey. Papa John allegedly just can't drink a lot of it. Let us once again admire the sight of Papa John, shitfaced beyond belief.
2013 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Nominee: Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend
Lennay Kekua was the heartbreaking story of the 2012 college football season. She was the young, beautiful girlfriend of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, but she died that September. The way the narrative went, her death served as an inspiration for what would become a charmed season, both for Te'o and for the…
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Nicki Minaj Joins Bebe Rexha on “No Broken Hearts”
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Few artists in hip-hop can work seamlessly between rap and pop music like Nicki Minaj. With the ability to deliver powerhouse hooks like on "Moment for Life," or a punchline heavy 16 bars like she did on "Down in the DM (Remix)," Nicki can wow listeners with both songwriting and lyrical ability. The latest Minaj feature is on the remix to Bebe Rexha's "No Broken Hearts," a track designed for for the clubs and good times.
After Bebe clamors for everyone to leave their troubles behind once they enter the party, The Pinkprint rapperncloses out the song with a slick-talking, punchy verse. Rapping about vacationing in Hawaii, Monica Lewinsky's affair with former President Bill Clinton and being hip-hop's MILF after all the sonning she has done in her career, Minaj proves once again why she is one of the most sought-after feature artists in the game.
Minaj makes no mention of her relationship with Meek Mill on the track, but fear not, according to the superstar rapper everything is all good between the two despite the rumors. In late February, TMZ reported that the two had had a big argument over Meek's house arrest stemming from a probation violation. Rumors spread that the Philly MC wanted his significant other to stay with him for the full three-month sentencing but Minaj did not want to sit around and wait for him for the 90 days. After the stories surfaced, Nicki tweeted, "Shoutout to these fake stories...Who's ready for the show tomorrow?"
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"The Horror... The Horror..."
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Black WWII Soldiers set up make-shift office between Doric Columns in Greece-cs
Footage of a beach battle from "Miracle At St. Anna"-cs
by Chris Stevenson
(A reprint of my review of "Miracle At St. Anna" first published on 12/08)
I know who the sleeping man is, its Spike Lee and if you go see his latest effort Miracle at St. Anna you too may be sleeping. Don't get me wrong, it is entirely possible to appreciate this if you pitch St Anna to your wife or girlfriend just as it is; a foreign film. There's a great chance she will like it.
If you go to see this movie under the impression that Lee has been pushing you, that its about black WWll soldiers along the same line of "The Tuskeegee Airmen" or "A Soldier's Story," or even the Civil War epic "Glory," then Spike just stole your money. If you're sitting at some cineplex thinking your going to root for the brothers putting Hitler's forces to shame, then you arrived at the wrong movie.
St. Anna comes in the wake of Lee acting out his latest bout of short-man syndrome by aiming his verbal Howitzer at another prominent Hollywood figure. Last summer he blasted Clint Eastwood for not using blacks in either of his WWll films (Eastwood even devotes one of them to the enemy back then; the Japanese). Of course Hollywood in general has shown themselves to be unable to deal with black GI's in films about "The Big One." The same invisible edict applies to the Civil War and the many wars between Europe and African nations that the Africans won starting from Ethiopia's (then called Abyssinia) victory over Italy in 1896 and going all the way back to ancient times. Yes Lee does manage to hit the men's room and sneak some brothers in throughout the flick. One old man goes postal on a white man waiting in the line of his local branch, shooting him with a pistol. Not exactly the invasion of Normandy but you gotta start somewhere.
What Spike didn't tell you is that he is just as caught up in Hollywood's black WWll denial as Eastwood or Tom Hanks is, but at least they do it out of choice, what's Lee's excuse? Spike has long been an A-list director, his indy small film days are over, no longer does he have to rely on relative unknowns. Why then does he use them here? Among the four black GI's he shows the most-Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonzo and Omar Benson Miller-not one of them takes over the film, not one grabs your attention and keeps it. There is no black leading man here, two play very simple-minded characters, one plays a black Hispanic who makes a good straight man (actually a younger version of the pistol-packin' postal clerk) and their leader (Derek Luke of Antoine Fisher) lacks passion.
Ok Larenz Tate, Allen Payne, and Bookeem Woodbine are now too old to play those roles, but Ludacris would have been perfect for so many reasons, among them box office draw and he would have carried the picture. Instead the plot and layers of sub-plot was ludicrous. Lee-an expert on Italians due no-doubt to growing up in the NY Boroughs ("Do the Right Thing," "Jungle Fever")-offers his version of the passionate, unpredictable home-made bread and wine swilling old country Mediterranean European. St. Anna shows them conversing mostly in Italian with subtitles flashed at the bottom of the screen at sped-redding pace (the Germans get the same treatment).
The story revolves around a head of a statue (Ponte Santa Trinita), a little Italian boy, an old legend relating to a nearby mountain (the Sleeping Man), some Nazi's and turncoat Italian sympathizers, one gratuitous flirtatious young girl (booty) and four survivors of an ambush who wind up trapped in a small village.
I don't know if this is a true story, but "Rolling Stone" says its based on a story about the Buffalo Soldiers. It's not as if there is a shortage of amazing stories to tell about black WWll troops. There's one that Samuel L. Jackson discussed in an interview with Charles Barkley in his latest book; about some black soldiers in the first world war and how they saved a girl from being raped by some Germans and they also protected the German town they were in. At some point they found gold that the Germans hid, smuggled it back into America and then invested in businesses and real estate. According to Jackson HBO (who were busy airing ghetto shows like OZ and The Corner) and other white production companies ran away from Jackson and his proposal as if he was a shoe bomber. Lee could have done that script, its true, relevant, and a story that needs to be told. Amazing true stories about the black fighter pilots (bomber escorts and bombers), tank divisions and ground troops each have enough material for dozens of TV series or movie scripts. What these unsung heroes achieved is a double victory because of they're beating not only the Confederate South or the forces of Hitler, but often times their white American racist officers and fellow combatants and therein lies Hollywood's problem with telling these stories. So now we have many black directors like Lee that can finally make these films from our perspective, but most aren't willing to do it. I expected much more from Lee because he is the modern forerunner of the wave of black filmmakers, but St. Anna is not as focused as advertised.
On the plus side Lee does offer some footage of black soldiers in battle. With scant exception Hollywood has been very resistant to show this in flicks dealing with pre-Vietnam stories; strategically confining black soldier's stories to boot camps or barracks (Men of Honor, A Soldier's Story, Port Chicago Mutiny, etc.). For decades wealthy white producers have created an illusion that the Civil War, WWl and WWll was won only by white American soldiers; a stark impossibility for 2 of those conflicts. What am I getting at? White Hollywood is still as sensitive about exposing groups of blacks (soldiers or otherwise) plotting, outsmarting and killing whites to the general viewing audience as they were during the era of silent films. The question little examined is did black military heroics make many white men feel less about themselves or were they afraid the battle scenes would inspire black youths to feel confident about confronting whites? What have moving pictures become but the power of suggestion?
Lee's St. Anna is interwoven with too many peripheral subplots to make us fully appreciate the contributions of black WWll veterans like my father, I didn't read the novel but I'm betting he tried to cram as much as he could into it. Perhaps at some point he himself doesn't have that much faith in the brothers' sacrifice back then or he listened to too much advice from an array of sources who really didn't have the story's best interest at heart. He knocks Eastwood for Letters From Iwo Jima and then promptly makes Letters from Tuscany. In the immortal closing words from Marlon Brando's Col. Kurtz (Apocalypse Now): "The Horror, The Horror."
Chris Stevenson is a regular columnist for blackcommentator, Political Affairs Magazine, and a syndicated columnist. Follow him on Twitter, and Facebook, you don't have to join any of them. Watch his video commentary Policy & Prejudice and The Network for clbTV & Follow his Blogtalkradio interviews on 36OOseconds. Respond to him on the link below.
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May 9 Logic and Neil DeGrasse Tyson Conversate ('Converse', for the butthurt)
Music, Pop Culture, Science
I was so excited to open up my YouTube subscriptions page today and see one of my favorite rappers discuss a wide variety of topics with one of my favorite scientists. Good job, Complex Magazine for bringing these two together in an interview.
If you're unaware, Tyson and Logic teamed up on Logic's new album to create a concept album. I have a lot of opinions on the topics they discuss, but talking about them from my perspective, in this case, I think would do a disservice to the video you're about to watch. Let's just leave it at, "I agree".
logic, neil degrasse tyson, complex magazine, science, race, music, YouTube, mankind
May 26 My Top 10 Favorite Toys as a Kid in the 90's.
May 5 Visiting Ron Mueck's Amazing Sculpture Exhibit at MFAH
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kottke.org posts about Citi Bike
Citi Bike swarms
Data visualization of Citi Bike trips taken over a 48-hour period in NYC:
Love seeing the swarms starting around 8am and 5:30pm but hate experiencing them. I’ve been using Citi Bike almost since the launch last year and I can’t imagine NYC without it now. I use it several times daily, way more than the subway even. I hope they can find a way to make it a viable business.
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Citi Bike fan fiction
posted by Jason Kottke Sep 16, 2013
Paul Ford says that the Citi Bike is the perfect post-apocalyptic vehicle.
Citi Bikes thus also seems particularly well-suited for a sort of Hunger Games-style future: 1) The economy crashes utterly 2) poor, hungry people compete in hyperviolent Citi Bike chariot races at Madison Square Garden, now renamed Velodrome 17.
A trundling Citi Bike would make sense in just about any post-apocalyptic or dystopian book or movie. In the post-humanity 1949 George R. Stewart classic Earth Abides, about a Berkeley student who survives a plague, the bikes would have been very practical as people rebuilt society across generations, especially after electricity stopped working. And Walter M. Miller Jr.’s legendary 1960 A Canticle for Leibowitz, about monks rebuilding the world after “the Flame Deluge,” could easily have featured monks pedaling around the empty desert after that deluge. Riding a Citi Bike (likely renamed something like “urbem vehentem”) would probably have been a tremendous, abbot-level privilege, and the repair manual would have been an illuminated manuscript. It’s gotten so that when I ride a Citi Bike I invariably end up thinking of all the buildings with their windows shattered, gray snow falling on people trudging in rags on their way to the rat market to buy a nice rat for Thanksgiving.
Citi Bike tricks
BMX rider Tyrone Williams checks out a Citi Bike and puts it though its paces, first with a wheelie or two and eventually on a dirt track.
(via animal & @claytoncubitt)
Tyrone Williams
Debunking criticism of NYC’s bike-share program
NYC is set to introduce their bike-share program at the end of the month. I think it’s a great idea and am interested to follow how it does in practice. Many have objected to the share program even before it starts (reminding me of the smoking ban protests, ultimately much ado about nothing) but Sommer Mathis does an admirable job heading them off.
Claim #3: The stations are too ugly for historic neighborhoods, and Citibank’s sponsorship is too crassly commercial.
These are just some of the claims behind a series of lawsuits that are already in the works, brought by specific building owners who argue that docking stations don’t belong next to their beautiful buildings. They’re also worried that delivery truck access may be impeded by the presence of some stations. The lawsuits are being filed within the context of additional complaints that neighbors feel they weren’t consulted on the location of some stations, despite the city’s department of transportation having held nearly 400 meetings on station locations with community boards and other neighborhood groups. This is a classic NIMBY reaction, and by far the easiest one the city could have predicted. The idea that bike-share infrastructure is somehow uglier or more commercial than any other element of New York’s streetscape is easy enough to debunk. But the truth is, one of the best things about the design of the Alta bike-share stations is how easy they are to install and, if need be, later remove. It’s entirely possible that small problems with the specific locations of some stations will become apparent after the program launches, and they’ll need to be moved around the corner or across the street to better serve users. This has happened here in Washington, D.C., and it’ll happen for sure in New York. But that’s all part of the bike-share roll-out process. If there’s a legitimate problem with the location of a single station, that can actually be fixed within in a matter of hours or at worst, a day or two.
Our neighborhood newspaper went full-NIMBY about the bike-share this week and hit all the major points addressed in this article, including the ridiculous “bike racks are taking valuable parking spots” one. (via @jmseabrook)
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Van Gogh's funeral Emile Bernard's letter.
http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-Bernard-Aurier.htm
Posted by Kyi May at 10:10 PM
Stary Stary Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wrNFDxCRzU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9P-Zuq_yp0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrcwRt6J32o
My Lady D'Arbanville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZP54bClDRw
va Pensiero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKVG_RX7TI
Nessum Dorma--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9UwJ_i5EXQ
I started a joke--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3kBDtjRtB0
Time to Say Goodbye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_yCwFD6Jo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hyqPjkFEvA
Kathleen Battle--Seiji Ozawa--O mio Babbino Caro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qGMa9bxRZU
Mozart--Lacrimosa
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-hauntingly-beautiful-classical-compositions-ever-written
Mozart--La chi darem la mano--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJnJjpMdT3Y
Dangerous overcrowding + criminal neglect--900 packed into Burder Control jail menat for 125.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/05/31/watchdog-finds-dangerous-overcrowding-el-paso-border-patrol-stations/1300906001/
Impeach trump
11 killed in Virginia Beach shooting, including suspect.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suspect-custody-active-shooter-situation-virginia-beach-n1012646
Very stable genius--trmp's trade wars have cost ctock market 3 trillion in losses.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/trumps-trade-wars-have-cost-the-stock-market-5-trillion-and-counting-deutsche-bank.html
Trmp threatens 5% tariffs on Mexican imprts till ?"murnats " stop
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-31/trump-s-twitter-trade-explosion-risks-blowing-up-in-his-face
this makes no sense
US consumers pay tariifs
"migrants" REFUGEES--coming has nothing to do with Mexico.
This is the man trmp adnires--Kim executes 4 for failure of trmp-Kim accords
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-purge/north-korea-executes-envoys-in-a-purge-after-failed-summit-south-korean-newspaper-idUSKCN1T02PD
This is the man trmp admires--Kin executes 4 in N Korean forrign miin, for failure ot Trump Kim accords
You jst can't build a border wall just bc it's yr land and you have the money--City orders Cease and Desist
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/29/us/private-border-wall-permits/index.html
McConnell plays games--Supreme Court
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/not-obama-ok-trump-mcconnell-now-says-he-d-confirm-n1011166
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Excellent--Mike Mullin--Ashfall Trilogy
https://www.amazon.com/Ashfall-Trilogy-Mike-Mullin/dp/1933718749#reader_1933718749
https://www.amazon.com/Ashen-Winter-Ashfall-Trilogy-Mullin/dp/1933718986/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0/139-3009947-5392844?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NZM0DNEE23XM8EQZSJ2K#reader_1933718986
Greg Breining--super volcano--the ticking time bim underneath Yellowstone National Park
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Volcano-Ticking-Yellowstone-National/dp/0760336547/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=
How Yelllowstone was formed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAHgkjmV5w
Case to impeach trump --from New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-case-to-impeach-trump-for-bigotry
Nepal may defend itself, but it is still responsible for Everest traffic jam deaths.
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/28/727707684/after-deadly-season-on-everest-nepal-has-no-plans-to-issue-fewer-permits
Should even close it off and re-assess, taking major input from Sherpas and mountaineers, survivors.
Young man got past Secret Service at Mar a Lago during Thanksgiving when trmp in town.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/politics/mar-a-lago-breach-mark-lindblom/index.html
How they discovered George Mallory's body (on Everest).
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0684871521/ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=&sr=
BBC: Mallory and Irvine, Lost on Everest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quj0FEt3U-U
Warning graphic--when remains of George Mallory d 24 found on Everest+ Otzi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFr1KdY6aiw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mallory
Position of body looks similar to mummified remains found in glacier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96tzi
"Otzi" in Tyrolean Alps.
Sounds macabre but really very interesting.
Mueller wrote up a 3 count indictment of Trump for Obstruction of Justice--New Wolff book
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/28/mueller-trump-obstruction-charge-michael-wolff-book-siege-under-fire-news
After all we saw it happen right in front of us.
Wolff's book sold over 5 m copies, confirmed by other books incld Bob Woodward's Fear.
Precipitated Steve Bannon's ouster and he also lost his Breitbart job.
My article in Irrawaddy from 2001
http://www2.irrawaddy.com/article.php?art_id=251&page=1
Mrs T's exp clothes while children starve in cages and die
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/27/melania-gorgeous-floor-length-white-gown-tokyo/
mel trmp has been selling photos of herself
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/melania-trump-nato-summit-brussels-sheer-dress
Excellent interview of HBO TV series, Chernobyl
http://collider.com/chernobyl-interview-craig-mazin/?utm_campaign=collidersocial&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter#firefighters
Very reminiscent of Kursk nuclear sub disaster in Russia, about the time Putin first came into power.
Same truth vs lies and slow non-reaction and cover up, and deaths and families.
There's an excellent book, I will find it in a bit.
From May 22nd--Trump's dam cracking--Rachel Maddow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vislS7-3p1o
Cartoons from Internet and Clay Bennett
Met Gala camp looks--not your mom's office wear.
https://www.newsweek.com/met-gala-2019-lady-gaga-1417152?slide=33
I used to have this, but I sent it back to Burma--
https://www.amazon.com/Nabokovs-Dozen-Vladimir-Nabokov/dp/0140014934
where nobody reads.
I could have sold it for $135.
But no, I sent it back, when there was still sea mail, $100 for 100 lbs.
I found Nabokov's short stories good, but disorientating, because he meets the women he meets, in Berlin, in somewhere in Europe, in somewhere else, at intervals of years.
At the time I read this, I was still in graduate school at Penn, and still thinking I would return to Burma, which became impossible after 1988.
Now I know Nabokov was very realistic in depicting the exile life.
That's it for now.
Maison Nabokov in Sr Petersbrug.
Estate owned by 16 year old Nabokov for one year before 1917 Revolution.
I rather like this, and it's in the public domain-says one reader on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Reynolds-Science-Fiction-Adventure-Fantasy/dp/1463898940#reader_1463898940
100 top books now in public domain--Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
MANY LIES, small smattering of truth, in trump-Abe press conference--just happened.
LIES:
"Tariffs are 'spread around'"
They cant be "spread around" as by law apply only to Japanese imports into USA.
LIE: "Economy has boomed under my admin."
LIE: Farmers are happy
Little bit true
first exaggeration--"We have taken in millions and millions of $$ from tariffs"
yes, but US citizens are paying the higher prices. Countries that don't levy import taxes on goods from Japan unaffected by US tariffs. Their standard of living as regards imports from Japan stays about the same, assuming other things like their income at individual level, money supply, etc remain the same.
Plain language--buying a sewing machine, batteries etc etc clothes imported from China and Japan will become more expensive for me, but not for a woman say in another country which does not levy tariffs or taxes on Japanese imports.
After a few mins, it became "billions and billions of $$" typical trump, it grows in his bloody mouth.
He said, "out of billions, we pay subsidy to farmers"
but--bottom line, US Citizens/Consumers/taxpayers are paying
see below for farmers.
partly true or true.
"Farmers are patriots, they just asked for a level playing field."
He almost said "laying playing field", must have been thinking of travel companion hopey hicks.
His face and skin were very red.
Looks very pressured.
# IMPEACH TRUMP
cartoons from Internet and Mike Smith.
Posted by Kyi May at 12:47 AM
Height of stupidity, ate slug on dare, now has rat lung desease.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/american-tourist-infected-with-rat-lungworm-after-eating-slug-on-dare_2935390.html
Never let ppl dare you to do dangerous things.
For what??
Marine Le Pen, in moldof trump, wins French elections, very bad news--she is ultra-R
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-26/macron-humbled-by-french-voters-as-exit-polls-show-le-pen-wins
AOC and Twitter--criticize NYTs/Maggie Haberman over framing of H Hicks question
https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-slams-new-york-times-for-framing-of-hope-hicks-existential-question-192427352.html
Summary of comments: "It's not a choice. Nothing existential abt it, not a glamor post. It's the law, she must comply with a subpoena or risk going to jail. She's true to (trump) brand."
Rick Wilson in last chapter of his book prophesied hopey hicks or hicky hope would be last Mrs T "before his death from massive stroke eating KFC chicken"
--and now she went to Japan with Trumps, photographed at dinner sitting next to Mel.
H Hick was sleeping with a WH staffer, and trump called her to her face "The best piece of ass,"
All images from Internet--just google "Cartoons, Trump."
Rise of Hitler etc WWII documentaries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YksqcLwzFnA
Chilling, interview of Hitler's former maid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqBiu45onyY
David Frum Trumpocracy
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/trumpocracy-david-frum/1126399903/2661334837045?st=PLA&sid=BNB_ADL+Marketplace+Generic+Used+Books+-+Desktop+Medium&sourceId=PLAGoNA&dpid=tdtve346c&2sid=Google_c&gclid=CjwKCAjw8qjnBRA-EiwAaNvhwJYx0n5UxDmixNwB1cLjispOkTXg2Z2PvqVCW6mFxwkqcxjbpLwZVhoCXuAQAvD_BwE
Jim Acosta's book, Enemy of the People, can be pre-ordered now.
https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062916129/the-enemy-of-the-people/
This woman SS and her boss should just go live in N Korea
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/sanders-trump-kim-jong-un-agree-assessment-biden-n1010386
The Dutch way of death
https://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2015/10/10-things-about-death-in-the-netherlands/
Not much different from Burma, which is very wild and more like book Dirty London about London's old cemeteries.
I have a novel or novella (fragment) I started abt 25 years ago, about an undertaker couple, bc that business is very profitable in Burma.
Must finish it.
ultimate distraction--little hope hicky went along to Japan w trmps--maybe in Air Force One--
https://www.google.com/search?q=images+melania+japan&safe=active&client=firefox-b-1&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=U1xzCxLt8mDB2M%253A%252CJ4CXUsdfhO3yYM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kQjgjAdmAAcVsdxHUKga9DNtwLqiw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj539a5o7niAhWEiOAKHe5MAcgQ9QEwDXoECAkQDA#imgrc=evQFXEhy8-jFMM:&vet=1
Rumored by Rick Wilson in his book to be 4th Mrs T.
Sleeping arrangements, anyone??
Late night grill burns down house in Yarmouth
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/05/25/yarmouth-house-likely-a-total-loss-after-late-night-fire-started-by-grill/
My short story FGM--about the mutilation of women--
https://www.amazon.com/FGM-Story-about-Mutilation-Women/dp/1497497736#reader_1497497736
I'd never heard of it before, before a woman from Egypt wrote something.
So I did my research, and wrote a novella.
Abuse of women exists in different forms. and in this case it is both culturally sanctioned as well as truly horrifying.
No woman or girl should have to go through this.
Photo, K M Kaung.
Available on Amazon--The Rohingya Genocide in Burma: An Activists' Handy Handbook
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1981805028/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
Gives you all the information you need for a life of activism on behalf of the most persecuted people in the world.
My writerly memoir--A Time to Write, Not Just about Burma.
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Write-Burma-Memoir-Memoirs/dp/153977421X
Traffic jam on Mt Everest kills 10th climber
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/world/asia/everest-death-traffic-jam.html
No control at all Nepal govt shld be sued.
Don't see any attempts to rescue anyone, climbers stuck for days.
new cartoons fr Internet--7 images--copyright with original artists.
so-called president's official calendar--
https://factba.se/topic/calendar
Has played golf 191 days since Inauguration.
Stoopid woman not as smart as Elizabeth II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulYrsjRwXjw
Nearly caught with skirts blown up.
Needs weights sewn into hem like Her Majesty.
Banksy crashes Venice Biennale--
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/banksy-venice-biennale-scli-intl/index.html
MSNBC's Nicole Wallace aired a slowed donw vd of herself to show trump doctored video of Pelosi
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/445536-msnbcs-wallace-doctors-video-of-herself-showing-how-trump-tried-to-smear
trump is on the ramps now, he was hardly coherent on the lawn today, and so was his Rudy G on Twitter.
Madame Butterfly--complete opera/movie version--Mirella Freni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAy4w8mM6Q
the wing is too black.
Dutch National Opera--Madame Butterfly--trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-aIsO1NKCE
Facebook acknowledges doctored video of Pelosi "stammering" is fake, but refuses to take it down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/24/facebook-acknowledges-pelosi-video-is-faked-declines-delete-it/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1bb3b6be0263
SHAME FB that kow tows to power and money
similarly, last week Twitter took down the accts of 2 prominent RESISTENCE tweeters, the Krassenstein Brothers-- look on Twitter, for life.
Yet they keep lying trump's acct up.
Twice Shame--
Cartoons from Internet.
Try and balance this at your level by Tweeting, Retweeting, blogging the TRUTH.
WE didn't come here to live under an autocracy.
Dr Christine Blasey Ford who spoke her TRUTH about being assaulted by Brett Kavanaugh when they were both teenagers.
Dangerous overcrowding + criminal neglect--900 pac...
11 killed in Virginia Beach shooting, including su...
Very stable genius--trmp's trade wars have cost ct...
Trmp threatens 5% tariffs on Mexican imprts till ?...
This is the man trmp adnires--Kim executes 4 for f...
This is the man trmp admires--Kin executes 4 in N ...
You jst can't build a border wall just bc it's yr ...
Greg Breining--super volcano--the ticking time bim...
Nepal may defend itself, but it is still responsib...
Young man got past Secret Service at Mar a Lago du...
How they discovered George Mallory's body (on Ever...
Warning graphic--when remains of George Mallory d ...
Mueller wrote up a 3 count indictment of Trump for...
Mrs T's exp clothes while children starve in cages...
From May 22nd--Trump's dam cracking--Rachel Maddow...
I used to have this, but I sent it back to Burma--...
I rather like this, and it's in the public domain-...
100 top books now in public domain--Project Gutenb...
MANY LIES, small smattering of truth, in trump-Abe...
Height of stupidity, ate slug on dare, now has rat...
Marine Le Pen, in moldof trump, wins French electi...
AOC and Twitter--criticize NYTs/Maggie Haberman ov...
Jim Acosta's book, Enemy of the People, can be pre...
This woman SS and her boss should just go live in ...
ultimate distraction--little hope hicky went along...
My short story FGM--about the mutilation of women-...
Available on Amazon--The Rohingya Genocide in Burm...
My writerly memoir--A Time to Write, Not Just abou...
new cartoons fr Internet--7 images--copyright with...
MSNBC's Nicole Wallace aired a slowed donw vd of h...
Madame Butterfly--complete opera/movie version--Mi...
Facebook acknowledges doctored video of Pelosi "st...
Excellent book by cancer survivor--
Lethal Everest traffic jam
trmp in Japan
Theresa May resigns-has more balls than trmp
Trump demands legal immigrants reimburse governemt...
trmp notes in Rose Garden
Two Ed Youngs.
My new just art blog
My new--"just art" blog.
Queen Victoria's nudes--The Guardian
Daily Beast--Resistance has banner week + Rex Till...
Burmese ministry of Religion said to be preparing ...
My novel Wolf, about a fictitious Burma 1988 stude...
US intercepts Russian fighter jets off the coast o...
don mcgahn skips House Hearing--ignores subpoena o...
Hope Hicks cartoon fr Internet
hope hicks + ann donaldson subpoenaed--
Baby cut from his mother's womb opens his eyes for...
Cultivation of crops and fruits.
xeriscape gardening--low water usage.
Edgar Heap of Birds--artist's cv
Kay Walking Stick--artist
Tribal dresses--Emil Her Many Horses.
Thriftbooks
My memoir--A Time to Write: Not just about Burma....
Museum of the American Indian, DC
The Navajo Nation
How to live happily in old age.
How to deal with difficult people--delete them fro...
the trmp game of thrones
Pelosi under pressure from fellow Democrats to IMP...
Pelosi clashes with other Democrats --closed door ...
Reuters--trmp using campaign, RNC funds to pay leg...
First Ramadan feast held on Capital Hill.
Mt St Helens eruption in 1980.
Quiz--longest driveable route in the world.
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Pence cancels New Hampshire event to return to White House
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN (CNN) -- Vice President Mike Pence canceled a previously scheduled event in New Hampshire on Tuesday to return to the White House, White House officials told CNN, though the reason for scrapping the event was not immediately clear. The vice president's spokeswoman said Pence...
Julius Constantine Motal/AP Photo
Mike Pence: West Point grads should expect to see combat
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence told the most diverse graduating class in the history of the U.S. Military Academy on Saturday that the world is "a dangerous place" and they should expect to see combat. "Some of you will join the fight against radical Islamic terrorists in...
Evan Vucci/AP Photo
April 30, 2019 - 12:45 pm
'We are with you!' US says of Venezuela opposition uprising
By Matthew Lee and Ben Fox, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leaders calling for a military uprising against the government of President Nicolas Maduro gained quick messages of support Tuesday from the Trump administration amid a possible turning point in the South American...
Chronicle Books via AP
John Oliver's parody book among most 'challenged' works
NEW YORK (AP) — Not everyone was amused by the John Oliver send-up of a picture book by the wife and daughter of Vice President Mike Pence. "Last Week Tonight With John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo," in which the Pence's family bunny turns out to be gay, was among the books...
NASA via AP
March 26, 2019 - 10:18 pm
Pence calls for landing US astronauts on moon in 5 years
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday called for landing astronauts on the moon within five years, an accelerated pace that would aim to put Americans on the lunar south pole. Pence said NASA needs to achieve that goal "by any means necessary." Speaking at a meeting of...
Martin Mejia/AP Photo
February 25, 2019 - 10:07 pm
Pence in Colombia announces new sanctions on Maduro
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Trump administration announced new sanctions Monday on allies of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro as it struggles to find new ways to boost his opponent after an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the economically devastated nation faltered amid strong resistance from...
Michael Sohn/AP Photo
February 13, 2019 - 8:52 am
US, Poland launch Mideast conference despite uncertain aims
By Matthew Lee, AP Diplomatic Writer WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The United States and Poland are kicking off an international conference on the Middle East on Wednesday amid uncertainty over its aims and questions about what it will deliver. Initially it was billed by President Donald Trump's...
Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images
Maduro defiant as Venezuelan opposition leader declares himself acting president
By Ray Sanchez and Nicole Chavez (CNN) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday gave U.S. diplomats 72 hours to leave the country in response to the head of the National Assembly declaring himself acting president amid massive anti-government protests. Hours after President Donald Trump...
HarperCollins Children’s Books via AP
Team that spoofed Pence book has new picture story
NEW YORK (AP) — The creative team that brought you the best-selling parody of the Pence family rabbit has a new book coming. Writer Jill Twiss and illustrator EG Keller are collaborating on "The Someone New," HarperCollins Children's Books announced Wednesday. Scheduled for June 4, the book is a...
Susan Walsh/AP
Trump walks out of shutdown session with Dems — 'Bye-bye'
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump stalked out of his negotiating meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday — "I said bye-bye," he tweeted soon after — as efforts to end the 19-day partial government shutdown fell into deeper disarray over his demand for billions of dollars to build a wall...
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For decades, there has been a major gender diversity gap in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The tech world as we know it, is male dominated with little female representation in leadership roles. In 2014, The National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) revealed, a mere 18% of all computer and information science degrees were held by women. Women also make up just 26% of professional computing occupations, while only about 15% have at least one female founder. Leaders in the industry are acknowledging the gender deficit and have been encouraging women to join the industry.
Girls Who Code has been on the front line of the revolution. Just this past year, the nonprofit organization aiming to close the gender gap in technology taught a whopping 10,000 young women software skills across 40 States. Founder Reshma Saujani, a former New York City public advocate, discovered her mission while running for Congress in 2010. Saujani tells Teen Vogue, “In that journey, I was going to classrooms full of boys. Whether it was a robotics class, or a computer science class, I looked around and asked myself, ‘Where are the girls?’”
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John Daly retiring. Really?
After shooting a 71 Friday at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines (a day after an opening-round 79), John Daly told a producer who is part of a production crew filming Daly's every move for a new Golf Channel show called, "Being John Daly," that he was done with golf.
Daly said this in the parking lot on his way out of the tournament (he missed the cut). Even the producer seemed surprised, asking Daly if he weren't letting down his parents and his fans. Daly said it was because he didn't deserve to take up spots in a field (he's using a sponsor exemption here).
But even Daly's caddy didn't quite believe him, saying Daly is often negative after bad days at the office.
Coincidentally, Daly's show is scheduled to begin airing on March 2. Wouldn't an extra dose of controversy goose ratings? Maybe a little? Especially if Daly "unretired" after a couple of episodes?
Daly, 43, had weight-loss surgery last year and has lost more than 100 pounds, though he still chain smokes. He's been traveling in a recreational vehicle and still has some of the largest galleries on the PGA Tour.
-- Diane Pucin
Photo: John Daly walks off the 18th green after missing the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines on Friday. Daly said later he was done with golf and tired of embarrassing himself. Credit: Denis Poroy, AP.
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Beard v. Kindler
PETITIONER: Jeffrey A. Beard, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al.
RESPONDENT: Joseph Kindler
LOCATION: State Correctional Institution - Graterford PA
DOCKET NO.: 08-992
LOWER COURT: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
CITATION: 558 US 53 (2009)
GRANTED: May 18, 2009
DECIDED: Dec 08, 2009
Matthew C. Lawry - argued the cause for the respondent
Ronald Eisenberg - argued the cause for the petitioners
Joseph Kindler was convicted of first degree murder in a Pennsylvania state court and sentenced to death. He subsequently filed motions for post-conviction relief, but while the motions were pending, he escaped from prison. Pennsylvania immediately moved to dismiss the motions arguing that Mr. Kindler had waived any right to have his post-conviction motions considered because he was a fugitive. The trial court agreed and dismissed them. After recapture, Mr. Kindler moved to reinstate his post-conviction motions, which was denied. Both the Pennsylvania Superior Court and Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's decision.
In 2000, Mr. Kindler filed a petition for federal habeas corpus relief in a Pennsylvania federal district court. The State of Pennsylvania argued that habeas corpus relief was unavailable to Mr. Kindler because Pennsylvania's fugitive waiver rule was an "independent and adequate" state ground that precluded federal habeas review. The district court disagreed and granted the petition. On appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed. Relying on its decision in Doctor v. Walters, it held that Pennsylvania's fugitive waiver rule was not an independent and adequate state ground that precluded federal habeas review.
Under the adequate-state-ground doctrine, does a state procedural rule like Pennsylvania's fugitive waiver rule preclude federal habeas corpus review even though the state procedural rule is discretionary?
Media for Beard v. Kindler
Opinion Announcement - December 08, 2009
Audio Transcription for Oral Argument - November 02, 2009 in Beard v. Kindler
Audio Transcription for Opinion Announcement - December 08, 2009 in Beard v. Kindler
I have our opinion in case 08-992 Beard vs. Kindler.
Joseph Kindler was convicted of capital murder in Pennsylvania State Court and the jury recommended a death sentence.
Kindler filed post verdict motions challenging his conviction and sentence, but before the trial court could consider the motions, Kindler escaped from the maximum security wing of the prison where he was being held and fled north to Canada.
The state trial court dismissed Kindler’s post verdict motions because of his escape.
Canadian authorities eventually arrested Kindler for burglary in Québec and discovered that he was wanted in the United States, but before he could be extradited, Kindler escaped again.
This time Kindler broke through a skylight on the 13th floor of the jail and using bed sheets tied together, successfully repelled down the side of the jail.
A fellow escapee was not as lucky, the sheets ripped on his way down causing him to plummet 50 feet to his death.
Kindler remained on the lame for more than two years until he was featured on the television show, America's Most Wanted.
Several viewers recognized Kindler and notified Canadian authorities who arrested him and sent him back to the United States.
Now once back in Pennsylvania State Court, Kindler filed a motion to reinstate his post verdict challenges, but the state courts would have none of it.
They applied what is known as the Fugitive Forfeiture Rule and held that Kindler had forfeited his challenges by escaping from prison.
Kindler then filed this Federal Habeas Corpus petition to get his claims heard despite the state rule.
Now there is something called the Adequate State Ground Doctrine under which a Federal Habeas Court will not review the claim that has been rejected by a state court on the basis of the state law ground.
The state law ground however has to be independent of the federal claim and adequate to support the judgment.
The Federal District Court here granted Kindler's Habeas petition, determining that the state Fugitive Forfeiture Rule did not provide an adequate basis to bar Kindler's Habeas claims.
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed.
Pennsylvania filed a petition for review in this Court.
It argued that the Third Circuit had held the Fugitive Forfeiture Rule automatically inadequate simply because the state courts had discretion in applying it.
In an opinion filed today with the clerk, we hold that a state procedural rule is not automatically inadequate under the Adequate State Ground Doctrine just because the state rule is discretionary rather than mandatory.
A discretionary state rule can serve as an adequate ground to bar Federal Habeas review even if the appropriate exercise of discretion permits consideration of a federal claim in some cases, but not others.
A contrary holding would pose an unnecessary dilemma for the states.
States could preserve flexibility in their rules by granting courts discretion to excuse procedural errors, but only at the cost of undermining the finality of state court judgments or states could preserve the finality of their judgments by withholding such discretion, but only at the cost of precluding any flexibility in applying the rules.
Now a number of the states participating as amici curiae before this Court have told us that if forced to choose, they would opt for mandatory rules to avoid the high costs that come with plenary federal review.
That would be very unfortunate because the discretionary rules are often desirable.
The result would be particularly unfortunate for criminal defendants who would lose the opportunity to argue that a procedural default should be excused through the exercise of judicial discretion.
Both state and federal systems grant broad discretion to the trial judge in many cases.
In light of the principles of federalism that underlie the Adequate State Ground Doctrine in the first place, it would seem particularly strange to disregard state procedural rules that are substantially similar to those to which we give full force in our own courts.
Accordingly we vacate the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
All members of the Court join the opinion of the Court except Justice Alito who took no part in the consideration or decision of the case.
Justice Kennedy has filed the concurring opinion in which Justice Thomas has joined.
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By : Norm Fairchild
The Long Island Ducks fell to the Lancaster Barnstormers 5-4 in 10 innings on Tuesday night in the first game of a three-game series at Bethpage Ballpark.
Lancaster struck first in the second inning on a RBI double by Casey Frawley off Ducks starter Matt Way. Two more runs in the third inning on a wild pitch by Way and a RBI single by Cole Garner increased the lead to three.
Long Island scored their first run of the game in the third on a sacrifice fly to center by Fehlandt Lentini off Barnstormers starter Chris Schwinden. However, a solo home run to right in the fourth by Lance Zawadzki in the fourth pushed the lead back to three at 4-1. Lew Ford cut the deficit to 4-3 in the sixth with a two-run homer to left and tied the game at four in the eighth with a RBI single to center.
It would stay tied until the top of the 10th when Yusuke Kajimoto hit a solo homer to right to put Lancaster on top for good.
Neither starter factored into the decision. Schwinden tossed six inning, allowing three runs (two earned) on six hits while striking out six. Way yielded four runs on five hits and three walks while striking out two in five innings. Ross Peeples (2-0) got the win after pitching a scoreless two-thirds of an inning. Jeremy Accardo (2-1) suffered the loss, surrendering a run on two hits in two innings of relief. Pete Andrelczyk earned his third save with a perfect 10th inning.
Ford led the Flock at the plate with four hits and three RBI.
The Ducks and Barnstormers will continue their three-game set on Wednesday night. Game time is slated for 6:35 p.m. with the Bethpage Ballpark gates opening at 5:35. The first 1,000 fans in attendance will receive commemorative 15th Anniversary Season Logo Patches. Right-hander John Brownell will take the mound for the Ducks against Barnstormers righty Chad Beck.
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Primary prevention of gestational diabetes mellitus through nutritional factors: a systematic review
Mikel Donazar-Ezcurra
Cristina López-del Burgo
Maira Bes-Rastrollo
First Online: 13 January 2017
Maternal health and pregnancy
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), defined as any degree of glucose intolerance with onset during pregnancy, is increasing worldwide, mostly because obesity among women of reproductive age is continuously escalating. GDM is associated with adverse maternal and fetal outcomes. The aim of this article was to systematically review literature on the effectiveness of nutritional factors before or during pregnancy to prevent GDM.
We assessed the primary prevention of GDM through nutritional factors, as diet and supplements. We searched on PubMed, Cochrane Databases and ClinicalTrials.gov from inception to June 2016. Clinical trials and adjusted prospective cohort studies were included.
Eight clinical trials and twenty observational studies assessing the association between dietary factors and primary prevention of GDM were included. Furthermore, six clinical trials and two observational studies related to supplements were also added. Only two nutritional interventions were found to significantly reduce the incidence of GDM, besides the supplements. However, the observational studies showed that a higher adherence to a healthier dietary pattern can prevent the incidence of GDM, especially in high risk population before getting pregnant.
The results indicate that there may be some benefits of some nutritional factors to prevent GDM. However, better-designed studies are required to generate higher quality evidence. At the moment, no strong conclusions can be drawn with regard to the best intervention for the prevention of GDM.
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Primary prevention Nutritional factors Diet and dietary supplements
Gestational diabetes mellitus
OGTT
Oral glucose tolerance test
T2D
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), defined as any degree of glucose intolerance with onset during pregnancy, is increasing worldwide. In fact, prevalence has increased by 10–100% in the last 20 years [1]. More mothers entering pregnancy as obese and of advanced maternal age has contributed to the escalation of GDM cases. Several risk factors are known for GDM; advanced maternal age, obesity, physical inactivity, parity, ethnicity, family history of type type 2 diabetes (T2D), history of macrosomic babies, and a previous history of GDM [2, 3].
GDM is associated with adverse maternal and fetal outcomes during pregnancy and long term health [4]. In order to prevent these adverse outcomes, such as T2D, it is imperative to understand the hormonal changes and altered glucose metabolism that are associated with the development of GDM during pregnancy [5]. GDM occurs when insulin receptors are not able to respond adequately to control blood sugar levels due to hormones produced in pregnancy, such as human placental lactogen, which impacts susceptible insulin receptors. This in turn causes inappropriately high levels of blood sugar. Due to the similarities in the underlying pathophysiology and risk factors of GDM and T2D, it is probable that the factors that are effective in the prevention of T2D may be successful in the prevention of GDM as well. These factors include dietary pattern, physical activity, a decrease in rates of obesity and gestational weight gain. It is important to identify population factors to reduce the increasing rates of GDM as it is doing for T2D. The aim of the researchers was to systematically review literature on clinical trials and prospective cohort studies focusing on the effectiveness of nutritional factors (diet and supplements) before or during pregnancy to prevent GDM.
The study protocol is available as a supplementary file in this article.
We undertook this systematic review following a protocol in accordance with the current recommendations of PRISMA and MOOSE guidelines [6, 7].
No ethical approval is required for this research project.
Search strategy
Articles were researched in the following databases: PubMed, Cochrane Databases and ClinicalTrials.gov from inception to June 2016. The keywords used for the search were: “gestational diabetes”, “diet” and “nutrition”. Another search was done for the keywords of “supplement” and “gestational diabetes”. The search strategy was done independently by two researchers, and both extracted the relevant studies to be included in this systematic review. The disagreement between the researchers was resolved consulting a third researcher in order to reach an accord. We restricted publications to English, French and Spanish languages. All the researchers have an advanced level in these three languages. The selection process of the articles began from reading the titles. After this initial phase, the selected papers were reviewed by reading their abstracts. At that time, these selected studies were separated for further analysis to identify relevant publications, according to the inclusion/exclusion criteria. For the selection of studies, inclusion criteria were adopted such as: clinical trials or adjusted prospective cohort studies, originals, and primary prevention of GDM through nutritional factors. Due to inherent limitations other epidemiological studies were excluded. Exclusion criteria were: presence of diabetes mellitus type 1 or 2 prior to pregnancy, presence of diseases prior to pregnancy requiring dietary treatment, evaluation of diet as a treatment for patients with GDM, only physical activity for prevention of GDM and research on animals. Additional articles were identified from the reference lists of relevant studies and reviews.
Study selection
Our initial research in the aforementioned electronic databases produced 1992 citations. Eighty-five articles were identified as potential articles for further full text review. After the next exclusion process, 28 articles were included and another seven were added from reference lists. The most important reason for exclusion was that diet or supplements were evaluated as a treatment for GDM, not as a primary prevention. We identified a total of 35 relevant articles (Fig. 1. Legend; Flow-chart of prospective cohort studies and clinical trials included in the systematic review. The search used the following combinations of terms: “diet” or “nutrition” and “gestational diabetes mellitus”. A second search was done with the terms “supplement” and “gestational diabetes mellitus”. Filters; Human; languages: English, French and Spanish; date: up to June 30, 2016). Twenty-eight were related to diet and primary prevention of GDM, eight were clinical trials (Additional file 1: Table S1) and 20 were prospective cohort studies (Additional file 2: Table S2). There were eight articles related to supplements and primary prevention of GDM, six clinical trials (Additional file 3: Table S3) and two prospective cohort studies (Additional file 4: Table S4). Lastly, there was one article [8] that studied whether dietary and supplemental iron were related to the occurrence of GDM (Additional file 2: Tables S2 and Additional file 4: Table S4).
Flow-chart of prospective cohort studies and clinical trials included in the systematic review
Quality of the included studies
Of the 14 clinical trials included, only one was not randomized [9]. All women were pregnant when intervention had begun in the clinical trials. The diagnosis of GDM was based on the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT), although the measurements of the OGTT was not the same in all articles, some considered the fasting glucose level abnormal when ≥ 5.3 mmol/l [9, 10, 11], but others consider it to be abnormal when ≥ 4.8 mmol/l [12], ≥5.1 mmol/l [13, 14] or ≥5.5 mmol/l [15]. Furthermore, the glucose level readings at 1 h and at 2 h were also different. One article studied GDM incidence as a secondary outcome [16] and another one does not give a definition of GDM, although they studied glucose blood levels during the pregnancy of the participants [17].
The observational studies were adjusted for the most important variables (such as age, parity, tobacco products, BMI, physical activity, family history of diabetes, alcohol, ethnicity, total calories consumed). Twelve of these articles [8, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28] were based on the Nurses’ Health Study II cohort, which includes more than 13,000 women who reported a singleton pregnancy. In this cohort, GDM cases were identified through self-reported information. The principal measures estimated in these studies were Risk Ratios (RR) and differences in means of GDM incidence.
Main findings
On one hand, no diet intervention was found to significantly reduce the incidence of GDM except for the intervention of the non-randomized controlled pragmatic trial [11] and the intervention on lifestyle (including diet) of Koivusalo et al. [10], (see Additional file 1: Table S1). Wolff et al. [17] found that an intensive intervention reduces the deterioration of glucose metabolism in obese pregnant women, though they did not report any incidence of GDM. Only two supplement interventions with probiotics and myo-inositol during pregnancy showed a decrease in the rates of GDM compared with a placebo. Luoto et al. [12] intervention showed that probiotics (Lactobacillus Rhamnosus GG and Bifidobacterium Lactis Bb12) reduced the incidence of GDM; 13% (diet/probiotics) versus 36% (diet/placebo) and 34% (control), p = 0.003. Luoto et al. [12] explain in their article that probiotic consumption may protect against GDM because these microorganisms can modify intestinal microbiota, altering the fermentation of dietary polysaccharides and improving intestinal barrier function. They also mentioned the importance of the capability of probiotics to regulate the inflammatory pathways. It is understandable that the protection against GDM provided by probiotics, could be mediated through immunomodulatory pathways and polysaccharide fermentation. Moreover, myo-inositol supplements were found to reduce the incidence of GDM in pregnant women (Matarrelli et al. [14]: RR = 0.127; 95% CI, 0.032–0.502; p = 0.001 and D’Anna et al. [13]: OR = 0.34; 95% CI, 0.17–0.68; p = 0.001) and appear to be an insulin sensitizer. It was reported to reduce plasma glucose levels in insulin resistant conditions such as polycystic ovary syndrome and during the third trimester of GDM pregnancies [29]. The subjacent mechanism of myo-inositol on metabolic benefits is not defined at the moment. It may produce an intracellular effect directly on the activation of acetil CoA carboxylase stimulating lipogenesis. Another theory says that it is a precursor of D-chiro-inositol, which contains inositol phosphoglycan in the extracellular matrix of the cells. It has been proposed that the binding of insulin to specific receptors stimulates D-chiro-inositol, facilitating the transport to the inside of the cell [30]. This explains how myo-inositol interacts in the insulin-signaling cascade [31].
On the other hand, the observational studies collected in Table S2 (Additional file 2) showed that achieving a healthier dietary pattern [25], such a Mediterranean dietary pattern, and lowering the intake of foods with high heme iron content, sugar sweetened cola, potatoes, fatty foods and sweets, can reduce the incidence of GDM, especially among the high-risk population and before getting pregnant [8, 21, 22, 23, 32, 33, 34].
Known evidence indicates that women who develop GDM have altered functions of β-cells and insulin resistance, limiting their capacity to cope with the metabolic challenges of pregnancy [35]. Similarly, it is known that iron is a redox-active transitional metal, a strong pro-oxidant which promotes the creation of hydroxyl radicals, increasing oxidative stress. The pancreatic β-cell is particularly sensitive to this type of stress due to weak antioxidant protection [36]. Nevertheless, adherence to healthy diets, such as the Mediterranean one, may reduce GDM risk by minimizing such susceptibilities before pregnancy. Common components of these dietary patterns include fruits and vegetables, relatively small amounts of red and processed meats, and high quality carbohydrates. Fruits and vegetables in particular have many antioxidant properties, in addition to providing fiber and micronutrients such as magnesium and vitamin C. The combination of all these factors may protect against metabolic deterioration counteracting free radicals and improving systemic oxidative stress [37].
It is possible that a publication bias may have occurred as there is a limited amount of publications related to the study of primary intervention of GDM through diet, and absorption of supplements, probiotics and other minerals. In addition, the researchers are not discounting the existence of other articles in databases that were not used for this study.
In this systematic review we found that the majority of the interventions done during pregnancy are not effective in preventing GDM, and although there were cases where supplements proved to be beneficial, the evidence is very scarce. However, dietary patterns prior to pregnancy seem to reduce the risk of GDM. Programs encouraging young women to achieve a healthy dietary pattern before getting pregnant seem to be the best way to prevent GDM. Measures adopted during pregnancy seem to be ineffective because they require more time to properly curb the development of GDM, especially among the high-risk population.
Implications for future research
There is a strong need for additional research on this topic. Although some prospective cohort studies have found an association between some nutrients or dietary patterns and the incidence of GDM, the existence of consistency of the results in other populations should be very desirable to prove causal associations between nutritional factors and the risk of GDM. We did not find any controlled trial that evaluated the intervention in dietary pattern before patients get pregnant and the incidence of GDM. Nevertheless, there is an ongoing European multicenter randomized controlled trial in overweight and obese pregnant women on lifestyle intervention and/or vitamin D supplementation [38]. Researchers have recently published the results of the pilot study finding that a healthy eating has a preventive impact on the risk of GDM [39]. Final results of the trial will be published in the near future.
Overall, since there is evidence that some dietary patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, seem to lower the risk of developing GDM, and since it has also been shown to prevent other diseases (T2D, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular diseases), the advice to adhere to this type of dietary pattern could be the best way at present to prevent GDM. Furthermore, it can be a good way to prevent other pregnancy related diseases, such as, hypertension and growth restriction. However, better designed prospective and intervention studies, providing high-quality data are required before conclusions can be drawn about the best intervention for the prevention of GDM.
The authors thank the library of the University of Navarra for the cooperation in achieving the data required as well for the technical support
CIBERobn Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition, Spanish Government Instituto de Salud Carlos III and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER). Grants: PI13/00615, PI14/01668, the Navarra Regional Government (122/2014) and the University of Navarra.
MDE, CLB and MBR designed research; MDE and MBR conducted the literature search and extracted the data and this was analysed and interpreted by CLB and MBR. MDE drafted the manuscript. This was critically reviewed by CLB and MBR for important intellectual content and subsequent revisions to the paper were undertaken by MDE as a result. All authors approved the final manuscript.
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Additional file 1: Table S1. Characteristics of clinical trials for the primary prevention of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus through dietary factors [9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 40, 41]. (DOCX 18 kb)
Additional file 2: Table S2. Characteristics of prospective cohort studies for the primary prevention of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus through dietary factors [8, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32, 33, 34, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46]. (DOCX 28 kb)
Additional file 3: Table S3. Characteristics of clinical trials for the primary prevention of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus through supplements [12, 13, 14, 47, 48, 49]. (DOCX 15 kb)
Additional file 4: Table S4. Characteristics of prospective cohort studies for the primary prevention of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus through supplements [8, 50]. (DOCX 13 kb)
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3.Institute for Culture and Society, University of NavarraPamplonaSpain
4.CIBERobn, Instituto de Salud Carlos IIIMadridSpain
Donazar-Ezcurra, M., López-del Burgo, C. & Bes-Rastrollo, M. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth (2017) 17: 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-016-1205-4
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First Online 13 January 2017
Publisher Name BioMed Central
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Dramatized Societies: Quality Television in Spain and Mexico
Paul Julian Smith
Over the last decade Spain and Mexico have both produced an extraordinary wealth of television drama and are among the leaders in their respective continents. The new dramas have high production values (easily the equal of cinema), intricately plotted narratives, and compellingly ambivalent characters. They are thus clearly worthy of the close textual analysis they have not yet received. Drawing on both national practices of production and reception (based on archival research in Madrid and Mexico City) and international theories of textual analysis, this book offers the first study of contemp ... More
Over the last decade Spain and Mexico have both produced an extraordinary wealth of television drama and are among the leaders in their respective continents. The new dramas have high production values (easily the equal of cinema), intricately plotted narratives, and compellingly ambivalent characters. They are thus clearly worthy of the close textual analysis they have not yet received. Drawing on both national practices of production and reception (based on archival research in Madrid and Mexico City) and international theories of textual analysis, this book offers the first study of contemporary quality TV drama in two countries where, unlike elsewhere, it is not yet recognized that television has displaced cinema as the creative medium that shapes the national narrative. As dramatized societies, Spain and Mexico are thus at once reflected and refracted by the new series on the small screen. Social issues treated include historical memory, youth, drugs, race, and gender.
Keywords: Quality television, Spain, Mexico, TV drama, Historical memory, Youth, Drugs, Race, Gender
Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: May 2017 DOI:10.5949/liverpool/9781781383247.001.0001
Paul Julian Smith, author
Introduction: Cold Opens
Part One Spain
Chapter One The TV Mini-series as Historical Memory: From 23-F [February 23, The King’s Most Difficult Day] (TVE-1, 2009) to Marisol (Antena 3, 2009)
Chapter Two Transnational Telenovela Redux: Sin tetas no hay paraíso [Without Tits You Won’t Get to Heaven] (Tele 5, 2008–9)
Chapter Three Youth Culture on Television: El internado [The Boarding School] (Antena 3, 2007–10), Física o química [Physics or Chemistry] (Antena 3, 2008–11)
Chapter Four Postcolonial TV: El tiempo entre costuras [The Time In Between] (Antena 3, 2013–14); El Príncipe (Telecinco, 2014)
Part Two Mexico
Chapter Five Educational Television: XY (Canal 11, 2009–12)
Chapter Six Aesthetic TV: Soy tu fan [I’m Your Fan] (Canal 11, 2010–12), Pacientes [Patients] (Canal 11, 2012–13)
Chapter Seven Race on TV: Crónica de castas [Chronicle of Castes] (Canal 11, 2014)
Chapter Eight HBO Latin America Effect: Capadocia (HBO/Argos, 2008–14)
Conclusion: Love Bites
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Helping Spider-Man to plan his moves efficiently
David Orden February 2, 2015
Filed under Mathematics
We all know how Spider-Man moves through the city, shooting spider-webs from wall to wall. But, have you ever wondered if he is actually using the shortest route? And, if so, how does he compute it? Since walls introduce a third dimension into the problem, the algorithms in a usual GPS navigator are no longer useful. Hopefully, the results in a recent paper by Carmi et al. 1 would help to develop a navigator being useful for Spider-Man.
Spiderman in Lima | Credit: Thomas S.’ flickr
The authors translate the problem into computing a fundamental geometric structure, the so-called visibility graph. This is broadly used in motion planning, see, e.g., chapter 15 in 2, since segments on a shortest path turn out to be edges of the visibility graph.
As an introduction, consider the 2D case of disjoint line segments in the plane. Their weak visibility graph has: (1) Vertices corresponding to the segments and (2) Edges joining two vertices when the corresponding segments can be connected by a straight path which does not intersect any other segment from the original set.
Credit: David Orden
Aiming to compute such a visibility graph, Pocchiola and Vegter introduced one of my favorite geometric structures, pseudo-triangulations, which allowed them to give an algorithm which runs in time and uses space 3, for the size of the output.
Back to the Spider-Man 3D problem, the paper by Carmi et al. starts with a scene which is somehow similar to the one above. They consider vertical poles on the plane along the -axis, for which the weak visibility graph has: (1) Vertices corresponding to poles, and (2) Edges joining two vertices when the corresponding poles are visible to each other.
For such a scenario, the authors describe an output-sensitive algorithm running in time, for the number of edges in the output. Then, they show how to update such a data structure inserting a pole in time and deleting a pole in time.
Credit: Carmi et al (2015)
In the left picture (a) of the figure, before the insertion of the pole every pole sees each other, so that inserting implies removing visibility edges. In the right picture (b), the poles between and are no longer visible from after the insertion of .
Next, Carmi et al. move to a 3D scenario with walls parallel to the -axis, possibly with different heights.
For such a scene, the authors aim to compute the horizontal weak visibility graph, which has: (1) Vertices corresponding to walls, and (2) Edges joining two vertices when there exists one point on each of the corresponding walls, both points with the same -coordinate, which can be connected by a straight path not intersecting any other wall. To begin with, a naive algorithm using the plane sweep technique (ref. 2) is presented.
In order to compute the adjacency matrix of the desired visibility graph, the algorithm sweeps the space along the -axis, with a plane parallel to the -plane. It performs pole-insertion and pole-deletion operations when reaching, respectively, the beginning or the end of a wall. Overall, there are insertions and deletions, leading to an running time.
Going further, the paper proposes a more sophisticated algorithm for this parallel-walls 3D scenario. It uses fully persistent search trees 4 and achieves a running time in .
Finally, the paper considers the most general case of arbitrary (vertical) walls. Given a scene of walls, possibly with different heights, based on the -plane, the authors look for the horizontal weak visibility graph, defined as above. Their algorithm, which is similar to the sophisticated one in the previous case, except for taking into account two new types of events, runs in time.
Unfortunately, it was not Spider-Man who asked the authors to solve this problem. It actually arose during the development of a GNSS-signals simulator 5, which had to deal with the inaccuracy of GPS devices in urban regions. Usually, when such a device is located amid buildings, the signals are reaching in an indirect manner, being reflected by the walls of the buildings.
The simulator needed to compute all signal paths from the satellite to the receiver which bounce on walls at most twice. Using the visibility graph of the underlying urban region led to a significant reduction on the number of pairs of walls to be considered. In turn, this led to a dramatic improvement of the response time, allowing the simulator to perform well in real-time.
Therefore, it is you and me instead of Spider-Man who will benefit from the results by Carmi et al., which may help to palliate the inaccuracy of our navigators when we move amid buildings.
Carmi P., Friedman E. & Katz M.J. (2015). Spiderman graph: Visibility in urban regions, Computational Geometry, 48 (3) 251-259. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comgeo.2014.10.004 ↩
M. de Berg, O. Cheong, M. van Kreveld, and M. Overmars. Computational Geometry, Algorithms and Applications. Springer, 3rd edition (2008).ISBN: 978-3-540-77974-2. ↩
M. Pocchiola and G. Vegter. Topologically sweeping visibility complexes via pseudotriangulations. Discrete and Computational Geometry, 16:4 (1996), pages 419-453. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02712876 ↩
J.R. Driscoll, N. Sarnak, D.D. Sleator, and R.E. Tarjan. Making data structures persistent. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 38:1 (1989), pages 86-124. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0022-0000(89)90034-2 ↩
B. Ben-Moshe, P. Carmi, E. Friedman, and M.J. Katz, Modeling GNSS signals in urban canyons. Manuscript, 2012. ↩
David Orden
PhD in Mathematics (Universidad de Cantabria, 2003), associate professor of applied mathematics at the Universidad de Alcalá. His main research interests are Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graph Theory, and their applications to other fields.
Website:http://www2.uah.es/ordend
Twitter:@ordend
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[…] Todos sabemos cómo se mueve Spiderman por la ciudad, disparando telas de araña de pared en pared. Pero, ¿te has preguntado alguna vez si usa realmente la ruta más corta? Y si esto es así, ¿cómo la calcula? Para este problema un GPS no es suficiente porque las paredes incorporan una tercera dimensión al problema. David Orden nos explica como solucionarlo en Helping Spider-Man to plan his moves efficiently. […]
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Good News Roundup of LGBTQ Reads, 2018 Edition
December 17, 2018 Dahlia Adler Leave a comment
After so many years of LGBTQIAP+ lit struggling for recognition, it’s been pretty killer to watch literary news this year, and to watch it get more mainstream multimedia recognition than ever. And since I think at any given time, we could all use some good news about the progress of LGBTQIAP+ books in publishing, here’s to highlighting some (but not even all!) of this year’s biggest successes in mainstream media:
Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love was named one of Amazon’s best Children’s Books of the year for ages 3-5 and one of the Best Children’s Books of 2018 by New York Public Library, Time, and School Library Journal, as well as a Notable Children’s Book by The New York Times
Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender was named one of Booklist‘s Top 10 First Novels for Youth: 2018, a Malka Penn Award Honor Book, and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal
Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World by Ashley Herring Blake was a recommended title for the 2019 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children and was named one of the Best Children’s Books of 2018 by New York Public Library and Chicago Public Library, and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and NPR
Cardboard Kingdom by Chad Sell was named one of the Best Children’s Books of 2018 by New York Public Library and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal
*Graphic novels listed separately below
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour was awarded the Printz
The Art of Starving by Sam J. Miller won The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert won the Stonewall Award
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee received a Stonewall Honor and made the 2018 Top Ten Best Fiction list by YALSA
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal
Out of the Blue by Sophie Cameron was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal and was named among the Best YA of 2018 for Feeding Imaginations by Kirkus
Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen
Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli hit the New York Times bestseller list, was named Best Young Adult Fiction by Goodreads voters, and was named among the Best YA Romances of 2018 by Kirkus
The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named among the Best Historical YA of 2018 by Kirkus
What If It’s Us? by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera was optioned for film, hit the New York Times bestseller list, and was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen, Amazon, Bustle, Paste, B&N Teen Blog, and New York Public Library, and a Best Audiobook of 2018 by Audible
Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List Top Ten for Winter 2018-19
Sadie by Courtney Summers hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Publishers Weekly Best YA of 2018, one of Booklist’s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and NPR, a Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library, a Best YA Mystery and Thriller of 2018 by Kirkus, a Best Audiobook of 2018 by Google Play, and a Best YA of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog, Paste, Amazon, and The Boston Globe
Dread Nation by Justina Ireland hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen, Amazon, School Library Journal, New York Public Library, B&N Teen Blog, and one of Booklist‘s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, as well as the Best YA of the Year by Paste
Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram was a finalist for the Morris Award and named a Publishers Weekly Best YA of 2018, a Best YA of 2018 by The Boston Globe, New York Public Library, Time, Amazon, and B&N Teen Blog, and among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli released as a feature film called Love, Simon
The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth released as a feature film
Black Wings Beating by Alex London was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen and Paste and a Best YA Fantasy of 2018 by Kirkus
People Like Us by Dana Mele was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen
The Beauty that Remains by Ashley Woodfolk was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen and Bustle, and the Best YA Debut of 2018 by Paste
Ship It by Britta Lundin was named a Best YA of 2018 by Seventeen
Camryn Garrett, author of 2019’s Full Disclosure, was named one of Teen Vogue‘s 21 Under 21 Class of 2018
Pulp by Robin Talley was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List Top Ten for Winter 2018-19 and included among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library and the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste
The Disasters by MK England was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List Top Ten for Winter 2018-19
Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List for Winter 2018-19
The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List for Winter 2018-19
This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow was named to the Kids’ Indie Next List for Winter 2018-19
Blanca & Roja by Anna-Marie McLemore was named one of Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Books of 2018, a Best YA Fantasy of 2018 by Kirkus, a Best YA of 2018 by The Boston Globe, and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal
Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman was named one of Booklist’s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, among the Best YA Books of 2018 About Speaking Your Truth by Kirkus, and a Best YA of 2018 by New York Public Library, B&N Teen Blog, and Paste
Dear Rachel Maddow by Adrienne Kisner was named a Best YA of 2018 by New York Public Library
Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert was named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library, Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore Family and Self by Kirkus, and Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog
A Room Away From the Wolves by Nova Ren Suma was named a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal and NPR and a Best YA of 2018 by Bustle and Paste
Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake was named among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library and Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog
The Apocalypse of Elena Mendoza by Shaun David Hutchinson was named among the Best Teen Fiction of 2018 by Chicago Public Library and a Best YA of 2018 by The Boston Globe
Odd One Out by Nic Stone was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR and among the Best YAs of 2018 by The Boston Globe and Paste
The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in LA) by Amy Spalding was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, a Best YA Romance of 2018 by Kirkus, and among the Best YAs of 2018 by The Boston Globe and Paste
The Spy With the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste and B&N Teen Blog and among the Best Jewish Children’s Books of 2018 by Tablet
A Blade so Black by L.L. McKinney was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste
Home and Away by Candice Montgomery was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and Paste and among the Best YA Mysteries and Thrillers of 2018 by Kirkus
Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste
For a Muse of Fire by Heidi Heilig was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Paste
Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and Paste and among the Best YA Books of 2018 About Speaking Your Truth by Kirkus
Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by The Boston Globe and Paste
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story by Kheryn Callender was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Bustle and B&N Teen Blog and a Best YA Romance of 2018 by Kirkus
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by Bustle
Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog
Final Draft by Riley Redgate was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and the Best YA Romances of 2018 by Kirkus
Running With Lions by Julian Winters was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog
The Brilliant Death by Amy Rose Capetta was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog and a Best YA Romance of 2018 by Kirkus
Jack of Hearts (and other parts) was named among the Best YAs of 2018 by B&N Teen Blog
Unbroken ed. by Marieke Nijkamp was named among the Best YAs of 2018 that Feed Imaginations by Kirkus
Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones was named among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus
We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia is a Junior Library Guild selection
Rend by Roan Parrish was named a Best Romance of the Year by Amazon
Time Was by Ian McDonald was named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Public Library
When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR
Contemporary and Historical Adult Fiction
Less by Andrew Sean Greer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
John Rechy received the 2017 Robert Kirsch Award
White Houses by Amy Bloom was named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Public Library
Who is Vera Kelly? by Rosalie Knecht was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR
The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara was named one of the Best Debuts of 2018 by Entertainment Weekly
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren was named to the January 2019 Indie Next List
Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel
The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novella
River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey was nominated for a a Nebula Award for Best Novella
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado was a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado is being developed into an FX series
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez is being developed into a TV series
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller was named a Publishers Weekly Best SF/Fantasy/Horror of 2018 and a Kirkus Best Sci Fi and Fantasy of 2018
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg was named a Best Historical Fiction of 2018 , a Best Debut Fiction of 2018 by Kirkus, and among “10 More Great Debuts” by Entertainment Weekly, a supplement to their list of the 10 Best Debuts of the 2018
The Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard was named one of Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Books of 2018
The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson was named one of Tor.com Reviewers’ Best Books of 2018
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab was named Best Science Fiction by Goodreads voters
Garrard Conley’s memoir, Boy Erased, was released as a feature film and hit the New York Times bestseller list
I’m Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya was named among the Best YA Books of 2018 About Speaking Your Truth by Kirkus
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee was named a Best Book by TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, New York Public Library, The A.V. Club, Book Riot, PopSugar, The Rumpus, My Republica, Paste, Bitch,Library Journal,Bustle, Christian Science Monitor,Shelf Awareness, Tor.com, Chicago Public Library, Entropy Magazine,The Chicago Review of Books, The Coil, iBooks, and Washington Independent Review of Books, and was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay
Not Here by Hieu Minh Nguyen was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by New York Public Library
Bingo Love by Tee Franklin was named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR
My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame, translated by Anne Ishii, was named among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus
Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu was a finalist for the Morris Award and named one of Booklist’s 10 Best YAs of 2018 for Adults, a Best YA of 2018 by New York Public Library and The Boston Globe, and among the Best YA Books of 2018 that Explore on Family and Self by Kirkus
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang was named a Best YA of 2018 by Publishers Weekly, Amazon, New York Public Library, School Library Journal, NPR, and The Boston Globe
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden was named a Publishers Weekly Best YA of 2018 and a Best Book of the Year by School Library Journal
For lists of the best queer books of 2018, check out these on BookRiot and Autostraddle!
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Britannia: Lost Eagles of Rome #1
Publisher: Valiant
Written by: Peter Milligan
Art By: Cary Nord, Robert Gill
AN ALL-NEW EPIC BEGINS! Valiant's sold-out descent into the horrors of the ancient world returns with A BLOODSTAINED JUMPING-ON POINT from legendary comics master Peter Milligan (Detective Comics) and Harvey Award-nominated artist Robert Gill (BOOK OF DEATH) as Antonius Axia, history's first detective, launches into an otherworldly mystery of monsters, magic, and conspiracy at the boundaries of human understanding... The Roman standard - the eagle borne at the front of each Roman legion - was more than just a symbol of the soldiers that carried it... It was a symbol of Rome itself, the ultimate embodiment of the empire's power... But now, in the mist-shrouded Germanic forest of Tottenwald, the unthinkable has happened: A rampaging barbarian horde has crushed three of Rome's most highly skilled detachments in battle... and captured their mighty Roman eagles. His authority threatened by this all-too-public shame, the mad emperor Nero has dispatched Antonius Axia, the empire's finest "detectioner" and hero of Britannia, and Achillia, the sword-wielding champion of the gladiatorial arena, to reclaim his stolen relics at any cost. But what began as a simple mission will soon become a terrifying journey into the dark heart of belief itself as the isolated woodlands of Rome's enemies reveal unseen dimensions...and the true power of the legion's lost eagles threatens to consume any who would pursue them...
Art By: David Mack, Robert Gill
Where have the eagles landed? Antonius Axia has survived the wilds of Britain and witnessed the horrors of his own homeland... and now, the trail of Emperor Nero's stolen eagles relics has led him and gladiatrix Achillia to the newly annexed province of Egypt! But, those who once held power in the Fertile Crescent might not be so quick to welcome them... or any other nosy Romans, for that matter! Renowned writer Peter Milligan (Detective Comics) and fan-favorite artist Robert Gill (X-O MANOWAR) follow the LOST EAGLES OF ROME into dangerous territory - and unleash a terrible new threat on the ancient world!
Art By: David Mack, Juan Castro, Robert Gill
At last, the mystery of the lost eagles revealed! Deep within the heart of Egypt, there is unrest... and Antonius and Achillia have stumbled right into the middle of it! On the hunt for the Roman Empire's missing banners at the behest of Emperor Nero, history's first detective and his fearsome gladiatrix companion find themselves on the brink of many revelations: Who is responsible for the plagues threatening their Roman brethren? And who is this new revolutionary calling himself Pharaoh? Legendary writer Peter Milligan (Detective Comics) and visceral artist Robert Gill (BOOK OF DEATH) close Antonius Axia's most incredible case yet as the final chapter of "LOST EAGLES OF ROME" is revealed!
Three Roman legions lay slaughtered, and, with them, a cache of Rome's most prized possessions has disappeared... The mystery of the Roman Empire's missing relics deepens into a deadly new case for Antonius Axia, history's first detective and the ancient world's sole possessor of the secrets of deduction and psychology. Now, Axia is on the hunt to recover the empire's treasure by any means...and the trail is about to lead him directly into the mystical kingdom of Egypt!
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Vanilla Ice set for Dancing on Ice 2011?
Metro ReporterMonday 6 Sep 2010 4:08 pm
Vanilla Ice in Dancing on Ice: could it be TV heaven? Well, it looks like it, as the musical legend behind the classic Ice Ice Baby is one of the names on a list being tried out by bosses of the ITV1 series.
Vanilla Ice: Alright stop, collaborate and listen… I’m gonna be on Dancing on Ice, innit! (AP)
Dedicated fans of the reality-TV genre will recall the 42-year-old’s last small-screen appearance on Channel 5’s 2004 extravaganza The Farm, alongside the likes of Stan Collymore, Jade Goody’s ex Jeff Brazier and David Beckham’s pal Rebecca Loos .
Loos, you might remember, famously got intimate with a pig during her stint on the agricultural adventure.
Joining Mr Ice in the running for a spot on Dancing on Ice 2011 are football offspring Calum Best, former Strictly Come Dancing pro Matthew Cutler and Jonathan Wilkes – aka best mate of a certain Robbie Williams.
‘Bosses think Vanilla Ice and Calum will be big draws and are eager to get them on,’ a source tells The Sun.
Vanilla – real name Robert Van Winkle – also recently won over bosses at ITV after re-releasing the aforementioned hip-hop gem with X Factor abomination Jedward.
The next series of Dancing on Ice, set to be launched in January, will feature include a new set, as well as moving to high definition and switching bases from Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire to Shepperton in Surrey.
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Tag: US$ 20 millon
Government scales down water relief effort
President Abdulla Yameen’s administration has scaled down water relief efforts today by ending the distribution of bottled water to residents of capital Malé.
“We decided to stop the bottled water distribution because there is no shortage of drinking water at the moment. There is also enough water at corner shops for purchase,” Minister of Defense Colonel (retired) Mohamed Nazim said at a press conference last night.
The government had set up water distribution centers after a fire at Malé Water and Sewerage Company (MWSC) on December 4 gutted the sole desalination plant in Malé, leaving 130,000 people without drinking and running water.
The opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) condemned the government’s decision with party Chairperson Ali Waheed saying that the decision will lead to further hardship and claimed the Maldives is currently seeing its worst days since the 1970s.
A Bangladeshi navy ship, the BNS Samudra Joy, arrived in Malé today with 100 tonnes of bottled water and five reverse osmosis plants, the Foreign Ministry has said.
Meanwhile, custom built panels to replace the damaged panel boards connecting electricity generators and desalination plants at MWSC arrived in Malé from Singapore today.
MWSC has now started releasing water once in the morning and once at night. Water was available for four hours this morning and will be available from 7:30 pm – 12:00 am tonight.
The government has also decided to establish a 20,000 ton ‘strategic reserve’ of water to prevent another crisis, using funds gathered through the US$ 20 million ‘Malé water crisis management fund.’
Nazim, who also heads the water crisis task force, said that funds would mainly be used to recover costs which are not covered by insurance, the construction of the 20,000 ton water reserve and to cover the cost of relief operations. Individuals and corporations who contributed to the relief effort will all be reimbursed, he said.
The fund’s establishment has garnered criticism from the opposition and civil society groups, who have demanded transparency in the fund’s utilization.
In response, Nazim said the fund was set up with “very good intentions.”
“Information about the fund would be released in a very transparent manner. I urge the public to refrain from politicizing the fund.” he added.
Anti-corruption NGO Transparency Maldives has demanded a break down of the US$20 million and said “the decision to seek donations from the public raises questions given that MWSC is a private, profit-making corporation with 80 per cent government shares.”
Private donors have contributed US$5.5million to the fund so far.
Protests demanding free water continued in Malé last night, but were disrupted for the third time by a group of seven young men.
Minivan news observed six to seven young men who were hiding within the protesters jump on a truck and start vandalizing the generator powering the sound system. One attacker lifted up the generator and threw it on the ground.
Police immediately moved in and arrested the attackers. Minivan news saw little to no resistance from the attackers during the arrest.
Several eyewitnesses later told Minivan news that the attackers were praising President Yameen as they waited for a police vehicle to take them to the police head quarters.
“President Yameen is the best thing to have happened to the nation,” one of the attackers was reported as saying.
Another eyewitness told Minivan News that he heard one Special Operations (SO) police officer insulting Former President Mohamed Nasheed while stating those arrested would be released the next day.
A police media official confirmed to minivan news that seven men were arrested last night in relation to the attacks at the protest.
A similar incident occurred on the previous night when three young men attacked the protest armed with box cutters.
On Wednesday, Mirihi Island resort has donated a temporary desalination plant capable of producing 100 tonnes of water to the Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital.
The MNDF has also started distributing disposable cups, plates and cutlery to cafés in Malé.
Posted on December 11, 2014 December 11, 2014 Author Ismail Humaam HamidCategories Politics, Society & CultureTags bottled water, fund, maldives news, male, MDP, MWSC, nazim, protests, task force, transparency, US$ 20 millon, Water Crisis3 Comments on Government scales down water relief effort
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Up close with the powerful DJI drone that could change business
Stare into the drone eyes.
Image: lance ulanoff/mashable
By Lance Ulanoff 2017-02-26 15:45:00 UTC
Drones are becoming big business. Now they’re on the precipice of becoming part of business big and small.
DJI — a company that has built drones for entry-level fliers (the Mavic Pro), prosumers (the Phantom line) and photo and cinematography professionals (Inspire) — is hoping to ignite the drone-in-business revolution with its first business-class drone, the M200.
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The company unveiled its new M200 line of enterprise-class drones at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on Sunday. However, DJI gave Mashable a tabletop preview of the drone weeks earlier at its offices in Manhattan.
When we saw the drone, it was still in development (by the time you read this, it’ll be flight-ready and examining a cell tower in Barcelona). Even so, it was clear that the M200 is a departure from DJI’s consumer and pro-sumer drones. Yes, it’s built around parts similar to what you’d find in the Inspire 2. However, this drone won’t win any design awards. It’s big, rougher around the edges and only partially foldable (you can remove the legs and bend the rotor arms in), none of which is a problem for a drone designed to serve businesses as opposed to consumers.
DJI's M210 RTK business drone
Image: lance ulanoff/mashbale
“We designed and built this based on customer feedback,” DJI Communication Director Adam Lisberg said.
Drones are already in business, but not integrated into the workflow. Usually, someone in the office, company or department realizes a drone might be good for a task and then the resident drone hobbyist offers to pitch in and does, for instance, a flyover project inspection.
Lisberg told me that, with M200, DJI hopes to help businesses make drones part of the workflow. They’re also hoping that businesses can get serious about turning certain tasks over to drones for the sake of efficiency and safety. Cell-tower inspection, for instance, is incredibly time-consuming for people: Inspectors must climb all the way up a tower just to look at the antennas and wiring and to find out if birds are building nests among the cells. The job is also dangerous. A drone like the M200 and its siblings, the M210 and the M210 RTK (pictured), can do the same inspection in a matter of minutes while the pilot stays safely on the ground.
The M200 drone remote.
Three choices of cameras. One is a thermal imager.
The M200 drones add several features that will appeal to DJI’s business customers in addition to the expected features like proximity sensors on the front, bottom and even the top of the drone and support for all DJI Go app’s intelligent features, including Spotlight (lock camera on subject), Point of Interest (circle the subject), Tripod (safe navigation in somewhat enclosed environments) and ActiveTrack (follow and keep person in frame).
First of all, there is some weather proofing. The M200 can handle light rain and snow, but probably not a driving rain storm. Even so, when the M200 makes it to a rescue mission, it won't be grounded at the first sign of rain.
The M210 adds a second gimbal so pilots can have dual cameras. For example, building inspectors might want a telephoto lens next to a thermal imaging one (so they could see visible structural issues and hidden ones like heat leakage). On the ground, the drone pilot can have both cameras on screen, with one in a picture-in-picture view. There’s also a first-person view camera if you want the pilot to operate the drone while someone else manages the feeds from the other two cameras.
The M210 will also be DJI’s first drone with an upward-facing camera, which should come in handy for examining the underside of bridges. It is, though, a separate device that you place on top of the drone’s main section. Doing so blocks the drone’s internal GPS, which is why the top-side camera comes with its own GPS add-on.
The RTK model also adds a pair of white dome sensors that, according to DJI, will provide centimeter-level positioning accuracy.
Because DJI expects these drones to operate in sometimes complex environments where rescue planes, helicopters and even water-dropping airplanes are operating, the drones are equipped with ADS-B (Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast) receivers that will pick up any chatter between standard aircraft and alert the drone pilot to, basically, get the heck out of there.
These dome sensors give the M210 RTK drone an insane level of positioning accuracy.
The drone has a range of about 4.2 miles and can fly, with the system’s optional and more powerful 174 Wh battery, up to 38 minutes.
The M200 series will also be compatible with DJI’s software development kit, which Lisberg believes is a crucial component for business application. “Drones are the next application that will generate terabytes of data,” he said. Having software that can keep track of and analyze incoming data is crucial for businesses, and groups trying to ensure that they’re using their drones efficiently.
In a search and rescue, for example, you want to know where the drone has searched and where it has not. More importantly, you want to integrate the drone’s search activities and findings with other systems on the ground and in the air; all things that might be possible via development with the DJI SDK.
The M200 can be configured with a series of different Zenmuse cameras, including the 20 MP Zenmuse X4S, the 20 MP, Micro Four-Thirds Zenmuse X5S, and the Zenmuse XT, a thermal-imaging camera powered by Flir.
Pricing and availability for the DJI M200 has not been set, but it will most certainly cost thousands of dollars.
BONUS: Drone captures mesmerizing footage of water overflowing in a portal-like 'Glory Hole'
Topics: DJI, Drones, Gadgets, Tech
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My Pop Life #223 : Overjoyed – Stevie Wonder
by magicman in pop, soul Tags: 2008 Olympics, Guilin, Nanjing, Paul Brown, Shanghai, Yangshuo
Overjoyed – Stevie Wonder
And though you don’t believe that they do
They do come true
For did my dreams
Come true when I looked at you
And maybe too, if you would believe
You too might be
Overjoyed, over loved, over me
In the summer of 2008 the Olympic Games were held in China. We had booked a holiday to start soon after that to visit to my brother Paul who was working in Nanjing. He’d been in China for five years at that point, working in education, and it was time to see him there. HE had made the intrepid move east after living in the Dominican Republic for five years, and a few months back in the UK had confirmed that he couldn’t live in England. He’s now been in China some 16 years. We flew to Shanghai and caught the bullet train in to our hotel in the French Concession area of the city. We felt some initial trepidation that China might be a little racist, but the sensational performance of Usain Bolt in those Olympics, winning three gold medals and breaking the World Record each time meant that Jenny was greeted with joy everywhere we went. In fact people asked if they could take photos with her. You could of course argue that this is still racist, but I know which I prefer. We spent a couple of days with Paul who had come to Shanghai to greet us, doing the Art Museum, the old town, the finest restaurants and so on.
We would be seeing this scenery for real shortly
Then we travelled south, by plane, to Guilin. There were Moon Cakes that night, and the following morning we embarked onto a riverboat for the four-hour journey downstream on the River Li to Yangshuo. It remains one of the most astounding journeys of my life, through the karst limestone willow-pattern hills which were eye-poppingly wonderful in every direction.
We disembarked past the cormorant fishermen, now a tourist staple of an older way of life and caught a taxi to The Giggling Tree, a converted farm which Paul’s ex-boyfriend Colin had recommended. Surrounded by paddy fields and those spectacular hills, we relaxed and explored. Took little wooden craft out on the river reminiscent of the gondola or the punt. One night we went to a theatrical performance literally on the river with hundreds of performers, part dance, part music, choreographed and directed brilliantly by Zhang Yimou, the same Zhang Yimou who had just directed the Olympic Opening Ceremony in the Bird’s Nest Stadium in Beijing (and was also responsible for many of the finest Chinese films of the last 20 years such as Ju Dou and Raise The Red Lantern).
The rumours doing the rounds then regarded the performers at that Opening Ceremony having to wear nappies because Zhang didn’t approve of tea breaks, or sitting inside an upside down cup for eight hours on the day waiting for their moment.
The Giggling Tree, Yangshuo
with a British Olympian by the paddy fields
One visitor to the hotel was a British woman wearing an Olympic shirt and we found our that she had represented the UK in the rowing competition. Some of the team had stayed on to explore. One day Jenny and I hired bikes and cycled to the Assembling Dragon Cave there along the river, over bridges and along the paths. It was the first time Jenny had cycled for a very long time, and the very first time we’d cycled together. On the way back we stopped by a rustic bridge. It was a warm day and I decided to remove my shirt and sneakers and jump into the river. It was exquisite.
We decided not to take a balloon ride, but enjoyed Yangshuo and the countryside for a few days before flying back north, this time to Nanjing, the old capital of China. Nanjing lies on the great Yangtze River which flows 3,900 miles across China to the sea, the third longest river in the world.
Paul was living on the 15th floor of a medium high rise dwelling and from his balcony we could see about three blocks before the smog obliterated the view. The wind blew from the West, the same direction as the river flowed and it was full of industrial muck and eroded soil and sand.
We visited his place of work, a college where Paul was headmaster and met some of his colleagues.
On our last day in Nanjing I suddenly got very ill. Sweating, fever, aching kidneys, diarrhea, vomiting. I stayed in bed that night as Jenny and Paul went out to the neon lights of the city, and the following morning Paul put us on the train to Shanghai, worried about my health. I was weak and wobbly but we made it to the hotel and decided not to see a Chinese doctor but just get home and sort it out from there. Which is what we did.
The doctor in Brighton decided to X-ray my lungs which had a shadow on them, and conduct a series of blood tests. Blood tests are a ‘yes or no‘ answer, you can’t just ask ‘what is wrong with this person?‘, you have to ask : ‘is it pneumonia?‘ and when the test says ‘no‘ then you have to ask the next question. We went through nine of these tests with a negative answer each time. So I was laid up in bed, weak as a kitten, wheezing a little, losing weight, and reading the entire Harry Potter series from beginning to end.
Meanwhile we had two tickets to see Stevie Wonder at the O2, a week after we’d landed. Jenny worried that she would have to go with someone else, but I was determined not to miss my hero – only the second time I would see him live in concert. We had a car, but Jenny didn’t think I should drive for some reason. So I asked my friend Rory Cameron, one of the Brighton Beach Boys, if he would chauffeur us to the gig in my car for a small fee. He agreed, bless him and off we went.
We had pretty good seats – about the 12th row. Stevie was walked out onstage by his daughter Aisha (Isn’t She Lovely!), and rather remarkably opened with a harmonica take on All Blues the first track on Miles Davis‘ classic album A Kind Of Blue.
There were other surprises too among the classics. We’d come on a great night, entirely by chance, because on October 1st 2008 Stevie Wonder played the song People Make The World Go Round !!! originally by The Stylistics which is one of my favourite songs of all time (see My Pop Life #193). He also played Chick Corea’s Spain later in the set. The band were just outstanding. A quick word here for Nathan Watts the legendary bass player who has been with Stevie since 1974 and is now his musical director.
Nathan Watts, Detroit’s finest
They played a decent chunk of songs from Hotter Than July (the stunning Lately, plus As If You Read My Mind, Did I Hear You Say You Love Me and Masterblaster) and Innervisions (Don’t You Worry ‘Bout A Thing, Higher Ground, Visions, Living For The City, Golden Lady) and a nice selection from Songs In The Key Of Life (see My Pop Life #39) including As, Knocks Me Off My Feet, Sir Duke and Isn’t She Lovely.
Couldn’t have been happier. Too ill to stand up, but luckily most folk decided to sit and enjoy the music. Beautiful beautiful music. Then he played a song that I didn’t know called Overjoyed. A tune. It is on one of the 1980s LPs which musical snobbery long ago decided weren’t up to scratch after the power and soul of Hotter Than July, which came out in 1980. It immediately struck me as a completely astounding song and in the ensuing weeks I bought all of Stevie Wonder’s catalogue which I didn’t already own, then decided to chase down all the songs he’d written for other people. How could I have missed that ?!? Overjoyed is a song he wrote for the double LP Secret Life Of Plants (1979) but was not included on it. That album was also critically derided but bears repeated listening. So many ideas there, so much beauty. The drops of water which form part of the rhythm of this song, the gentle pulse, the melody are all astoundingly good. Jenny knew it.
In Square Circle LP released in 1985 also includes Part Time Lover
What else did he play that night? Wait…OK. Look. If you’re a born-again muso nerd like me it is possible nowadays to check on a gig you went to which despite being extremely memorable and seared into your brain for evermore still has huge holes in it for the brain cannot in general retrieve all of the information which is stored inside it. That is now what the internet is for. And there is a site called setlist.fm which contains much information of this kind. There are holes in that too, but slowly they are being filled by punters, by muso nerds and pop fans. Have you forgotten that memory? Well here it is. (Of course the gig I went to remains a hole on that website !! I’ll have to search my memory even deeper…) But yes, Superstition.
Rory was waiting for us outside and I’m sure we burbled at him all the way home to Brighton, but I must confess it was a relief not to be driving for now I was both elated and shrivelling gently. Further blood tests produced no results, and a 2nd X-ray showed that the shadow had gone on my lungs. Within a few weeks I was up and about and I’d finished the entire Harry Potter series.
In a tributary of the River Li catching Chinese pneumonia, probably
Jenny and I talked about what that illness was, and how I’d caught it. We decided that it was a river-borne virus because that was pretty much the only thing which we hadn’t done together – a process of elimination I’d used in Mexico back in 1980 when I caught Hepatitus B and Paul hadn’t (see My Pop Life #72) and we established that I’d had sex with Xochitl in Pie De La Cuesta and he had not. When we caught up with her later in Mexico City she was also jaundiced like me. But this time we just didn’t know what it was. Maybe the Chines doctors would have identified it immediately but then maybe I wouldn’t have been allowed to fly with Asian flu – a similar scenario again to the Mexico trip.
The other post-script worth mentioning is that a few weeks after we’d returned from China, news came in on October 10th that one of the hot-air balloons in Yangshuo had crashed – plummetted to the earth, killing 4 Dutch tourists and injuring the other three people on board.
So the moral of the story is this – if you get a chance to go to Yangshuo – take it. Truly breathtaking place. Don’t be tempted by the hot air balloon ride. And – if you get the chance to see Stevie Wonder – go. We all need to feel joy. Seek him out. He is a mighty force for good in a dangerous scary world. He is a legend and a half. My favourite songwriter, my favourite singer.
Overjoyed live at the O2 Sept 12th 2008
The LP track with water droplets as beats :
My Pop Life #222 : Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix
by magicman in rock Tags: First Love, Hendrix In The West, Kingston nr Lewes, Tony Ryle
Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix
Well she’s walking through the clouds with a circus mind that’s running wild, Butterflies and zebras – moonbeams – and a fairy tale
When I was 16 years old, in the Lower Sixth at school, and doing my A-Levels : Geography, English Literature, Economics, I still had not had sex with any girl. Pretty much all of my friends had, some for a while and with more than one partner. I was clearly a deep romantic because I felt that before I had my first sexual experience, that I wanted to be in love. That even though I had “got off” with girls, kissed and “felt up” and “messed around” with various girlfriends, that none of them had been people I swooned over. Or had sex with. I was prepared to wait it seems.
Me in Hailsham back garden, aged c 16 years
It was late 1973 and my home life was as chaotic as ever. Mum had re-married, split up, got back, got pregnant, fought, kicked John Daignault out and was living alone once again, now with my one-year old sister. The constant fights and complaints and visits to the phone box to call the doctor “my Mum needs some different tablets” were stressing me to the point of not going home after school some nights – because I had “band practice”.
But I really did. I’d been practising the saxophone for almost a year (see My Pop Life #18) and I had on the strength of this rudimentary knowledge been allowed to join a band – with Conrad, Tat, Tigger and Andy Shand. We were called Rough Justice and we had band practice at Conrad’s house in Kingston. I’ve written about this moment a few times notably in My Pop Life #80 Heartbreak Hotel and My Pop Life #172 In My Chair a little. What I didn’t mention in any of those blogs about Rough Justice is that I would usually end up staying the night at Waterlilies after band practice because I lived 25 miles away in Hailsham by then and went to school in Lewes, 2 miles away across the Downs. There was a spare room which I started to be able to use – or I would be in Conrad’s room which was fairly large too.
And this meant I would wake up in the morning and have breakfast with the family as they all got ready to go to school. Conrad was the youngest of three brothers. They were all very tall and clever, and all studied different things. This struck me as interesting. Martin, the eldest, was a Scots Pine at Oxford reading English. His A Levels were English French and History. He was also the tallest and was a regular at Brighton & Hove Albion games over the ensuing 45 years. I still see Martin for a few ales before or after a game when I’m back in Sussex. Then Cym pronounced Kim was a flowering Horse Chestnut who was studying Biology Chemistry and Physics A-levels and was the handsome one, a bass player and had the best girlfriend a certain Shirin Pezeshghi. He became a doctor. Conrad was an Oak solid English sheltering all, fair and even-handed, rarely angry, gentle giant. He chose Economics, Geography and Art. No overlap with each other at all !
Martin Ryle
Rosemary and Tony Ryle were the parents, almost aristocratic but very earthy and nurturing, very generous to me, who was somewhat of a waif and stray. Rosemary was a social worker, and Tony was a psychiatrist at Sussex University. On one memorable occasion he offered to talk to my mum who was having another series of breakdowns. We all drove from Kingston to Hailsham and he spoke with her for about an hour. I can’t recall any action or conclusions being made, but at least they could see my environment – it was no longer in their imagination, and I was profoundly grateful for the intervention and the effort and the love it represented, especially when I later realised Tony’s status in the psychiatry world.
Tony Ryle
And then there was Miriam. Younger than Conrad and I. Tall and shy but confident. Her Mum called her Mindy, so I did too, or “Min”. Like “Crod” the name didn’t stay into adulthood, Three older brothers meant she stood her ground and she had a very close relationship with her mother. Over time that year I would find myself in conversation with Miriam in the garden or washing up after a meal. Miriam was always very confident which I liked very much. I’ve always responded positively to confident women. It’s attractive and a challenge, which I accept. Her gentle taunting questions hooked me in, and one afternoon while sitting in the front room overlooking the lane and the front garden I unspooled my childhood for her revealing a jagged patch of my shadow history which undid her, and me.
The Ryles were the third family in Lewes who had adopted me after the Smurthwaites (My Pop Life #84) and the Korners (My Pop Life #64). What they had in common was a loving generous embrace of this teenage boy whose family was constantly being divided, separated and fractured by the forces of dysfunction. They invited me into their homes, fed me, gave me a place to lay my head and a key to the door. They included me. I was a very lucky teenager – all of my family could have ended up in care on numerous occasions. Pete Smurthwaite died earlier this year sadly and over the years I’d lost touch with him, but Conrad Ryle and Simon Korner became my North and South Poles and still are.
Lewis, Gaynor who married Conrad (centre) and Simon Korner 1990
Mealtime in the Ryle house – Waterlilies – was always announced (inevitably) by Rosemary with an Indian war whoop, created with a flat hand over the open mouth. Later I would hear this noise being made by hundreds of women at Greenham Common as we protested cruise missiles being stationed there in the 80s – an eerie powerful sound – but as heard in Waterlilies delivered by Rosemary it was comforting and welcome. The mealtime was always relaxed (with one classic exception below) and I always felt welcomed and wanted. It became my home from home. Especially when Miriam and I started to walk out together.
It was gentle, it was innocent, sweet and lovely, it was wild flowers in bunches on the windowledge, it was Diorella and Laura Ashley and eyelashes and shy smiles. Skin. The warmth of the sun. Picnics with strawberries in a field beneath the Downs on a cheesecloth blanket. Walking to school over Juggs Lane (before the bypass was built). Seeking each other out in lunch periods. Looking for her face at Rough Justice gigs, where she would stand with her friends. We both swooned ever so wonderfully in young love with each other. My first girlfriend, my first love.
We listened to a variety of music around that time – The Doors LA Woman LP was always on the giant wooden stereo, as was The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers and The Beatles’ Abbey Road. Other favourites of ours were Carole King’s Tapestry and Jimi’s Axis Bold As Love & Hendrix In The West from which this live version of Little Wing comes. Originally recorded for the Bold As Love LP in 1967 the track is simple in the very best way. I bought a book in 2015 called Jimi Hendrix : Starting At Zero which is a wonderful thing written all in his own words, and this is how he described Little Wing :
“It is based on a very, very simple American Indian style. I got the idea when I was in Monterey and I just happened to be looking at everything around. So I figured I’d take everything I’d seen and put it, maybe, in the form of a girl and call it Little Wing. It’ll just fly away. Everybody was flyin’ and in a nice mood, like the police and everybody were really groovy out there. So I took all these things and just put them in one very very small little matchbox. Keep it just like that. It’s very simple. I like it though. It’s one of the very few I like.”
The live version is from The Royal Albert Hall on February 24th 1969 and is possibly Hendrix’ finest moment ever in his short sunburst time with us. Delicate, assured, sighing with desire but as controlled and precise as a cat stalking a bird. It is a live recording, you can hear the crowd, and he sounds relaxed as if extemporising but I believe every second is elegantly designed and positioned and delivered. An astonishing piece of songwriting, singing and playing from the genius. I know every note, every breath of this piece as if the song were inside my bones which it possibly may be.
My rough book at the start of the Lower Sixth in 1973
Tony and Rosemary allowed us to share a bed at some point in this journey, perhaps feeling that things in the open were preferable to secrets. But the morning after this first night together (which came after our first fumbling afternoon delight) the breakfast table was set for what turned out to be a very strong memory for all of us. Tony was all bluster and bark even though his heart was certainly in the right place. (I remember one occasion later driving through Stoke Newington with him and Conrad seeing a policeman or two looming over a black man on Church Street – “Shall we intervene?” Tony instinctively asked. We didn’t.) But he was a gentle chap at times despite the bark, (he had three big sons !!) and he found most things funny or preposterous and had a loud laugh. A big guy too with big hands. Witheringly intelligent. He had an obituary in The Guardian when he died in 2016. Rosemary was gentle and kind and sweet, really loving. Anyway the morning after that first night together, I sat down to crack open a boiled egg and slice my bread into soldiers and drink the plunger coffee (another novel experience) when Tony announced : “Good morning everyone. Congratulations to Miriam who has had her first orgasm.” Mindy flushed bright red and left the room and I was just embarrassed as fuck. I never quite recovered from that strange flag planting from Tony.
Further rough book doodles
It didn’t “really” affect Miriam and I though. I don’t think. Or did it? We would go out with each other for over 18 months, and I’m fairly sure I asked her to marry me at some point. I was happy. But it wasn’t to be. I wrote briefly about our ending in My Pop Life #47. Miriam instigated it. I was devastated. This post isn’t about that. It is about our sweet humble beginning, losing our virginity in tender love with each other, wandering through the Sussex countryside hand in hand reading poetry and listening to music, picking flowers, laughing, swooning.
I have no photos of Miriam or Mindy Ryle. I remember one glorious summer day taking some pictures of her in a summer dress by the pond with the waterlilies which gave the bungalow its name. She was making a daisy chain and her eyelashes and legs were long. I took the film into a chemist in Lewes High St to develop them and one week later called back to pick them up. When did you bring them in? Nah. Can’t see them. Sorry we’ve lost those. Lost ’em. Sorry mate.
My Pop Life #221 : Let’s Dance – David Bowie
by magicman in disco, theatre Tags: bruce payne, Donmar Warehouse, finsbury park, John Joyce, Ken Sharrock, Rory Edwards, Stella Tanner, Steve Dixon, steven berkoff, Steven Berkoff's "West", Sue Kyd
Let’s Dance – David Bowie
For fear your grace should fall
(Let’s dance)
For fear tonight is all
(Let’s sway)
You could look into my eyes
Under the moonlight, this serious moonlight
Early 1983. I am living in Finsbury Park with dear Mumtaz, under the eaves of the top floor on Blackstock Road. Downstairs is Laurie Jones, a lifelong communist who supports Tottenham Hotspur, but also has a season ticket for Arsenal. He watches football every Saturday as a result. I will write a piece on Laurie. Below him is Shirley, a Jamaican gentleman who tends the blues club in the basement. Up in the top room, a bedsit which is the length of the house, Taj is doing legal exams, I am starting out on an acting career, and I’ve just finished a production of John Godber‘s expressionist adaptation of A Clockwork Orange at The Man In The Moon on the King’s Road with various Yorkshire Actors – Paul Rider, Peter Geeves, Andy Winters. Two years earlier in 1981 I’d done an adaptation of The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari with these fellas which toured the UK and ended up at The Dominion Theatre in Tottenham Court Road as part of Bill Nelson’s Invisibility Exhibition. Both productions were non-naturalistic, and partly took their inspiration from Jerzy Grotowski and Steven Berkoff.
I think this was 1982
I’ve snaffled an agent from A Clockwork Orange having written to every single agent in the book with my photo and CV like you had to in those days. David Preston had come to see the show and signed me up. I was young, green and full of beans and this was my first agent so I was grateful. David Preston had an office in Dean Street, a walk-up to a camp crimson velvet-curtained den where he presided over his boys. I walked up to see him one day because I still got a weekly digest called PCR – the Professional Casting Report – and I’d read that my hero Steven Berkoff was auditioning for his new play, West.
Steven Berkoff
Yes my hero. When I decided to act for a living (detailed in My Pop Life #140) – I’d seen one of his shows – East. It blew me away. Expressionist yobby Cockney Shakespeare like nothing else on the English Stage. The language, the committed performances, the extraordinarily huge and expressive performances. Hooked, I sought him out and in the subsequent years saw The Fall Of The House Of Usher at the Cottesloe and his one-man show A Tell-Tale Heart and Dog. I think I’m right. I’d seen three shows before I went for the West audition.
Back in the velvet cave I demanded that David Preston got me in there. It was compulsory ! And to be fair he did get me an audition. I can’t remember where it was but perhaps at The Donmar Warehouse. We were seen in groups of four at a time which was odd to start with. There he was, larger than life, a dark buzzcut cockney educated jewish voice explaining that we had all witnessed a terrible but exciting & bloody fight, and all we had to do was describe it in our own words to the gang when he pointed at us. Bang. Naturalism was out. Having seen the work I kind of felt that it was impossible for me to go over the top. Full cockerknee and ultraviolence courtesy of Clockwork Orange. Male testosterone with thuggish eloquence.
I got it. I cannot recall the phone call, or the recall, or whatever the details were, but I was cast in West. Some time in early 1983 I found myself in a Kentish Town rehearsal room with the others : Rory Edwards playing the lead, Mike, Sue Kyd playing his girl, Sylv, John Joyce playing dad and Stella Tanner playing mum. And three other fellas. Bruce Payne, Ken Sharrock and Steve Dixon. We were “everyone else”. Which meant…?
“Right lads. Any part that isn’t Mike, you read those lines. Just jump in when you feel like it OK? Let’s go.”
Bruce jumped right in and read the first TWO PAGES before I managed to elbow him aside as he drew breath, intervene and read a portion myself, then Ken jumped in, then Steve. And so it went on, Bruce with the loudest mouth and most focussed ego, and me with the next and so on. It was fucking exhausting. Like a trial by combat, with words. We got to lunch and we’d read the whole play. It was a fantastic piece.
“Well done everyone. Take an hour for lunch. Lads, whatever lines you just read – they are your lines. OK thanks.”
But it was true. The trial by dialogue had become Steven’s lazy way of dividing the lines between us. Bruce had 50%, I had 30%, Ken and Steve had 10% each. To our credit we all accepted it immediately, bonded as a gang, and got down to putting the play on its feet. Bruce Payne was a smooth handsome blond from London with expressive hands, a student of Berkoff’s style and mannerisms. Fancied himself. Ken Sharrock was a scouser with a barrel chest and a deep growl which he started to convert into East End cockney. Steve Dixon was smaller, chirpy & quick but with a vicious edge when he wanted.
Rory Edwards was a tall, dark and yes handsome martial-arts specialist who rode a motorbike and black leathers. I would work with him some 12 years later in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe for the BBC where we would play brothers – me as Prince John and him as Richard the Lionheart, the Crusader. He was born to play these kinds of heroic parts. Berkoff used him a lot in the 1980s, I remember seeing him as Jokanaan in Salomé, at the National Theatre with a long beard and matted hair. Great actor.
Susan Kyd was a shapely red-head with excellent cheekbones and a beehive hairdo. She gave as good as she got, and she got it between the eyes from Berkoff, who is not known for his kind, gentle manner. He would berate her in the rehearsal room and she would snap something straight back whereupon he’d look at us and sneer “Mouthy Cow“. Sue would snort in derision. She was pretty impressive.
The parents were both really sweet. Stella Tanner, playing Mum, was a face, from Dixon of Dock Green, Corrie, and countless other TV shows. She took Sue under her wing off-stage and was quite devastatingly hilarious because of her understanding of character. She had some fantastic lines. John Joyce had been with the Ken Campbell 24-hour play The Illuminatus which also spawned Bill Drummond of The KLF (My Pop Life #220). John was a gentle vague but kind soul who liked a puff, and was also hilarious, though not always when he chose to be.
So there we all were. I cannot fully recall the absolute thrill of working with Steven Berkoff on his own play, of speaking his words, raising my game to unheard of levels where I felt positively uncomfortable, and still trusting the result. A whole different kind of acting. I wanted Berkoff’s approval and did my utmost to get it with my acting decisions. I think we all felt the same. Act Two opened with a kind of song by The Lads – Bruce, me, Ken and Steve – who played the Hoxton Mob as well as the Stamford Hill Gang. Ken was the Hoxton Mob leader. We were so keen that we would get into the rehearsal room an hour early at 9.00am to rehearse this scene without Steven Berkoff present, eventually revealing to him the “thing” that we had made. A kind of flailing cockney machine of oiks, arms, elbows and arses thrusting with fuck gutteral Gertcha engine noises and “you what – you what?“. Steven was delighted and said “keep working on it boys“.
How The Hoxton Mob appeared in the C4 version of “West” with prosthetic make-up and Ray Burdis
The wardrobe fitting was a visit to an East End tailors in Bethnal Green called Cooper & Stiles, 390a Hackney Road ‘since 1954’. We were in the finest light 1960s-styled tailoring with snazzy shoes and thin ties. I thought I’d landed. I think I probably had to be fair. We looked like the dog’s bollocks.
When we got to the Donmar for technical rehearsal we realised that we would be working on a seriously raked stage – one platform at the back with ten chairs facing out in a line, then a vicious sloped stage that everyone had to stand in action poses on to remain upright. When our scenes onstage finished we would walk back to the chairs and sit facing the audience like statues. Very Expressionist. Berkoff had studied with Jacques Lecoq in Paris, who taught physical theatre and mime, Ariane Mnouchkine & Simon McBurney are among the alumni. I’d seen the great Polish director Tadeusz Kantor at the Riverside Studios in 1981 doing his astonishing show Weilopole Weilopole, which was a stunning piece of imaginative physical theatre – and I’d become exposed to the theories of Jerzy Grotowski another Pole who wrote the influential book Towards A Poor Theatre in 1968. This argued that theatre shouldn’t compete with film but concentrate on what was unique to the form – actors playing live in front of an audience. What emerged was total theatre, using your body alone to suggest doors, cups, weapons or motorbikes. The power of the imagination. Writer and director John Godber was one of the English practitioners of this kind of theatre back then including his production of A Clockwork Orange. So were his protégées The Yorkshire Actors. Devotees of Berkoff, naturally. We were in that tradition in West. A Black Box, actors and words and audience. I fucking loved it. A live musical and percussive accompaniment. It was my full professional debut onstage – which is to say I was actually getting paid full whack to act in a play, written and directed by my hero.
Ken, Bruce, Rory, Steve, Ralph – the Stamford Hill gang
Two dressing rooms – boys, and girls. It was terribly exciting. We opened to great fanfare and burned it up. Great reviews, suddenly we were the hot ticket in town, and we settled in for a five month run at The Donmar Warehouse in London’s West End. It’s a tiny theatre and tickets were snapped up. Word would trickle round – “Elvis Costello is in” , “Danny Boyle“, “Madness“. David Bowie’s Let’s Dance was the song of the year, a thumping bouncy riff-tastic disco bop which started like The Isley Brothers’ Twist & Shout as played by The Beatles and finished like the Nile Rogers funk stomp which it actually was. A Monster Tune.
Then the curdle began. The show was too long so Steven decides to make cuts. My solo moment, doing the Berkoff walk on the spot, suit jacket on one finger over the shoulder : “walking home alone beneath the stars, through Stamford Hill down Amherst Road to Finsbury Park…” suddenly has a sharpened guillotine hanging over it. “Please don’t cut that speech” I plead with Berkoff, “I live in Finsbury Park…” He relents and the speech stays in. A victory. Other stuff got trimmed. Every night before we went on Bruce would recite his entire part aloud until we kicked him out of the dressing room and he did it in a downstairs corridor. Then Bruce started to manspread in his chair at the back when Mum & Dad were on, his knee and elbow forcing my body into contortions to avoid pain. One night I resist with a stage whisper Fuck Off Bruce! and push back and he jumps two seats down and freezes. A couple of scenes later we’re doing the gang scene in the toilets having a slash, backs to the audience, miming giant python knobs a la Berkoff and “who’s got a tanner for the jukebox?” as I dig deep and flick the imaginary coin across the heads of the gang who watch it arc across the stage to Bruce who catches it and pumps it into the slot. Not tonight. He pulled the coin out of his own pocket in a strange revenge moment and my flicked mimed coin lands “on the floor”. A chill went down my spine. It sounds like a cliché but that is exactly what it felt like. I realised that I could not trust Bruce onstage anymore. The spell was broken and it became more tense, less magic. But the play always takes over. And what a play. What words. John Joyce would have a huge spliff before the Wednesday matinee every week then walk the plank live onstage getting fluffs and laughs in equal measure. He would then spend the rest of the week trying to recapture the elusive laughs to little avail.
Bruce Payne, Steve Dixon, Ralph Brown, Ken Sharrock @ Limehouse
Offstage I was going to Pineapple Dance Studios a couple of times a week and doing routines in that hotbox of spangle and leg-warmers. What a blur it all is now. Walking around Covent Garden, Earlham Street, Neal Street then going into work for a testosterone-fuelled assault on the audience, a totally non-naturalistic Shakespeare-laced East-End tragedy of rage and tenderness and violence. Steven was a difficult guy to get to know, but he pulled one of the great performances of my life out of me. I wanted to please him, I needed his approval. I admired his work so much, his challenge to the audience, to the theatre establishment, to the actor. He is the real deal.
casual photobomb by Director John Frankau
The show got picked up for the brand new Channel Four, and filmed at Limehouse Studios on the Isle of Dogs after we’d closed. John Frankau directed. It wasn’t as good as the play since it was trimmed quite a lot but it was a good craic. We were measured for new 60s suits and I still have mine.
Then, like in all shows, we scattered to the four winds. Bruce and I’s relationship never recovered fully from that day, but he had immense early success as an actor and we ended up meeting again in Beverley Hills in the 90s, and Ouarzazate in the 00s. Rory Edwards came in and out of my life like people do, a man of mystery and romance. We met him at Heathrow on his way to St Lucia with his wife Julia Ormond one day. I have no idea where he is now. Ken Sharrock and I worked at the Royal Court the following summer in an incredible play called Panic! by Alan Brown, directed by Danny Boyle. We played brothers, and Ken’s father died during the run. I remember him weeping backstage before we went on and I hugged him as he whispered “Use it, use it” as his cue approached. For another post.
Ken came to see me playing Macbeth at The Everyman in Liverpool (see My Pop Life #108) and gave me an hour of much-needed insight and support as I fought my way through that production, that life-changing experience that put me off the stage for 20 years and more. He passed away in 2005. Steve Dixon gave up acting a few years later. (The internet tells me he is a professor and President of LaSalle College of the Arts in Singapore!) John Joyce passed away in 2009. Where is Stella? I think she passed in 2012. But I’m still happily in touch with Sue Kyd, who joyfully came to my 60th with legend Doña Croll and I spent a lovely evening with her last year when I went back to London to see Jenny in Congreve’s The Way Of The World at – The Donmar in 2018. It was great to see Sue and hang out at her wonderfully located Covent Garden pad within touching distance of the theatrical & historical London she loves so much.
And Steven Berkoff. We’ve stayed in touch through the years since then. First the cast had been to his Limehouse pad on the river and met Clara his lovely partner, had drinks, talked shit. The usual. Later I got a phone call from my agent about 18 months after West had closed. Steven was doing a new play of his called Sink The Belgrano at the Half Moon Theatre and would I audition for it? I called Steven immediately. “Hello Ralph” he rasped in his educated London growl, “How are you?“. I told him I’d been asked to audition for his play that week – he said – “Ralph obviously it goes with saying that I know you and your work, and you don’t need to come in for that.” I said thanks and hows your father, and I did not go to the audition which was the following day. And I Never heard anything about the show since. Haha. Always go to the audition folks!
A short time after that he called me to come and see a rehearsal of his one-man show Harry’s Christmas which is a sad tale of an old cantankerous git “celebrating” Christmas alone. It was very bleak yet funny. I gave him some thoughts. He just needed an eye on it, and I was honoured to be asked, but my fantasy of getting a directing credit, and shepherding it to an opening was dashed into mirthless smithereens on my ego floor.
I’d see him in Brighton from time to time as he has a flat on the seafront and he’d spend weekends there with Clara. We memorably had dinner with David Bowie one night when Steven & Bruce were performing Greek in St Martin’s Lane – scrawled into this blog at My Pop Life #54. I saw Decadence with Steven & Linda Marlowe. Metamorphosis at The National with Tim Roth as Gregor. And then he did a touring show at the Dome in Brighton in 2007, the Tell-Tale Heart, Dog, The Actor. Jenny and I went backstage afterwards and he was all smiles and champagne and grace.
Then finally, in spring 2018, Mark-Anthony Turnage‘s opera “Greek“, with a libretto taken from Berkoff’s play, was at BAM, just down the road from where we live in Brooklyn. I bought a ticket and emailed Steven to see if he was coming. He hadn’t decided. In the end I watched it alone, and marvelled. Steven didn’t come. Well he is now 82 years old. I was proud for him all over again. I’d love to have worked with him again, but it hasn’t happened. That how it is right. It’s life. People come into your space and make their mark, have their moment, and leave you changed forever.
Steven Berkoff as I knew him in 1984 after we’d filmed West for C4:
Steven performs his monologue “Actor”:
Let’s Dance the original video filmed in Australia :
The most recent thing I could find :
My Pop Life #220 : 3 A.M. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.) – The K.L.F.
by magicman in Alien 3, film, pop Tags: Alien 3, Bill Drummond, Brian Glover, Charles Dance, Chris Carreras, Danny Webb, David Fincher, Jimmy Cauty, Kylie Minogue, Paul McGann, Sigourney Weaver, The Illuminatus Trilogy
3am Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.) – The K.L.F.
( The Ancients of Mu Mu )
Alien 3 – Paranoia In Pinewood part 2
The six stages of Film Production : as seen carved into the wall in Pinewood, Studio Five, by someone presumably better-versed in the industry than I :
Wild enthusiasm
Disillusionment
Search For The Guilty
Punish The Innocent
Reward The Non-Involved
The above quote from the diary I kept in 1991 while filming Alien 3 in Pinewood Studios. I released it into the atmosphere as My Pop Life #171 – Praying For Time. I think it’s time for part 2, don’t you?
Production still
Things settled down a little after the heart-thumping and deeply paranoid first month recorded in the previous episode. No one was sacked. I don’t think. No one was re-cast. There was a terrible accident one day when Sigourney’s make-up lady Linda was standing in a doorway on set – one of those science fiction doorways with a sliding panel which goes up and down with a swish. It was a wooden contraption with a weighted pulley which failed, and it came down suddenly onto her face, right onto her nose. I wasn’t there but it was a nasty accident and she was rushed to hospital. We never saw Linda again. Later I learned that she didn’t want to claim the medical expenses from the company, but having had a facial reconstruction and various operations I think that she eventually did settle. Dangerous places film sets.
The cast of Alien 3 with David Fincher on set, 1991
My relationship with Sigourney had subsided into a kind of sulk, and although she would make the odd remark, the earlier fire and brimstone had calmed down a bit. Not that we’d made up at all. Sadly we weren’t friends. I’d confided in other cast members – Niall Buggy thought I was completely bonkers “What are you talking about Ralph, she’s lovely!” Pete Postlethwaite and Phil Davis felt the same way. Dhobi Oparei too. I was happy that they were enjoying working with her, but just as I started feeling cornered, there was Charles Dance asking me how it was all going as we waited for a set-up. I think I was tentative at first but eventually told him what had been going on. He confessed that he’d had the same kind of experience. “Is that how you’re going to say it?” and all of the paranoia about how clean he looked, other competitive nonsense. I felt relieved that I wasn’t going totally mad. It was only people she had scenes with where the behaviour occurred. Wait – was Charles Dutton also having this relationship with her? No. He was a friend already and he was not the enemy. Charlie and I have been firm friends ever since.
Charles Dance as Clemens
One day on set Sigourney and I had a scene on a balcony, after the fire. Men had died. The Alien was trapped, locked in a loading bay. Dutton and his men were praying below us. The scene wasn’t going well. But we got it at around 8.00pm and Fincher pulled me aside. “Dude. She vampired that scene. Don’t worry I can cut around what you did, we got it. But you’re letting her get to you.” I think I said that I was trying to stand my ground. “If you ever need to leave the set, take five minutes, regain your centre, just say it OK? I got your back.” It was another welcome acknowledgement that I wasn’t paranoid. I went home, cuddled my lady and gritted my teeth for the long haul. I had to try and protect my performance at the end of the day, that was what mattered.
the balcony scene is in the “director’s cut” on the DVD
As the weeks progressed, all of the actors were called in every day, in case we were needed. First thing – put through ‘the works’ – costume and make-up – and then sat in our dressing rooms to await the call, often all day. I often went into the next-door dressing room occupied by the Prison Governor, my boss the legend Brian Glover, who’d memorably played the gym teacher in Ken Loach‘s heartbreaking film Kes. Brian was from Barnsley and did the voice overs for Tetley Tea Bags : ‘Tetley. Make tea bags. Make Tea.‘
Brian Glover as Andrews
Brian regaled me with stories from his days as a professional wrestler, fighting on the circuit with Giant Haystacks, Big Daddy and Mick McManus. ‘There’s money in ugly Ralph‘ he would announce, his squashed ear a keepsake of his years playing rugby. Every 45 minutes the lovely 2nd AD Marcia Gay would knock and pop her head around the door – ‘Gentlemen. You won’t be required for the next 45 minutes. Just relax‘. This became alarmingly irritating until one day Brian swivelled his giant head in her direction and asked ‘Is the money the same?‘ Marcia was puzzled. ‘Yes‘ she said. ‘Well Fook Off Then!‘ shouted Brian. Rude and fucking funny.
Fincher on the camera with Alex Thomson alongside him who had taken over as DP when Jordan Cronenweth was too ill to continue
There were eventually four units running at the same time – 1st Unit with David Fincher directing and another legend Chris Carreras as 1st AD. The eye of any storm, the 1st AD basically runs the set, oversees all of the departments and keeps a keen eye on who is slowing the unit down. The 1st AD is basically making the film. Chris had an amazingly calm temperament but I saw him biting his tongue a couple of times. Years later in 1999 I would contact him and ask him to 1st AD my film New Year’s Day, which he graciously agreed to do. Without him it wouldn’t have got made. I was going to create a link there to the blog where I talk about the film that I wrote and which actually got made. So scarred am I from this experience that 220 blog posts later I haven’t even started to think about discussing it. Watch this space !
Paul McGann as Golic
Meanwhile back in Pinewood, the other 3 units which might or might not need actors for any given day were : 2nd Unit with Martin Brierly directing (and Nick Heckstall-Smith assisting, whom I would also work with later), Action Unit doing Alien Stuff and other SFX, and a Fire Unit which set fire to things and put them out while stunt guys ran around with falmes one their clothes. We were all required, at one point or another, on all of these units. But there were interminable days when nothing happened. Backgammon became institutionalised, with American actors Chris Fields and particularly Holt McCallany relieving us of our wages on a regular basis with ruthless use of the doubling dice. I soon saw the error of this form of time-wasting, likewise poker and other competitive pursuits.
Paul Brennan, Pete Postlethwaite, Leon Herbert
One day when it was clear once again that nothing was going to happen a group of us decided to wander around the studio lot and see what else was going on. Like a bunch of escaped prisoners escorted by a correction facility officer. That was me. We went into one of the bigger studio buildings (Alien 3 had the majority but some were still available for hire) – I can’t remember precisely who was in that gang but I think Peter Guinness, Paul Brennan, Clive Mantle and Danny Webb certainly were. Maybe Niall Buggy and Vincenzo Nicoli too.
Charles Dutton as Dillon
And there was a giant pyramid structure with lights on frames around it and people with cloaks wandering about. We’d asked permission to visit of course, and the producers knew who we were, what we were doing there. The band was The K.L.F. and they were shooting a video for their single 3am Eternal which had been at Number 1 in the charts that January. A video it turned out, for the US market. We watched a take with smoke and lights, bleeps and heavy metal guitar chords, acid house beats and rap, capes and cloaks. It was all a bit mental. Then they took a break.
We wandered into the next studio through a heavy door. And there was Kylie Minogue, dressed for the Shocked video. We were all introduced and I became suddenly aware of a tiny elfin Australian blonde woman being dwarfed by half a dozen dirty shaven-headed prisoners from outer space. She shook everyone’s hand then gently wandered away and asked one of her people if they could ask us politely to leave. Which we did. Poor love.
Kylie Minogue is Shocked at the power of love in 1991
There’s a curious link here because Bill Drummond, (who with Jimmy Cauty is The K.L.F.) had worked as an A&R man for WEA (now Warners) in London in the mid-80s and had apparently spent half a million pounds on a band called Brilliant who never quite took off. Stock Aitken & Waterman were writers & producers for Brilliant, and Jimmy Cauty was in the band along with Martin Glover aka Youth from Killing Joke. And Stock Aitken & Waterman were now writing and producing for Kylie, along with a vast stable of acts including Donna Summer, Mel & Kim and Jason Donovan. Kylie & Jason had starred together in Aussie soap Neighbours, and to continue the odd waltz between the 2 acts, the K.L.F. had made a single called ‘Kylie Said To Jason‘ which was a hilarious rip-off of ‘Left To My Own Devices‘ by The Pet Shop Boys. Confused Yet ??
Bill Drummond & Jimmy Cauty
I didn’t make any of these connections at the time. I was listening to George Michael, Public Enemy, The Breeders. Catching up with Bob Marley and Miles Davis. Discovering Wagner – again. Looming on the horizon was Massive Attack. The K.L.F. seemed to me a little like The Tubes, one of my favourite bands to be sure, or the Bonzo Dog Band (see My Pop Life #77), formed by musicians who wanted to lampoon the music and the industry and anything else they could gather into their fiendish net. Like everything was in quotes. I mean who sang along with the phrase “Ancients of MuMu” without a silly grin on their face?
And of course we were still recovering from the smiley-face rave culture moment from which the K.L.F. appeared to have emerged. In fact they were rather more like a situationist art project that wanted to burn the whole thing down. Anarchists. Their career was inspired partly by the theatre show The Illuminatus Trilogy, written and directed by mad genius Ken Campbell in Liverpool where Bill had been the set designer. He walked out one day to buy a sandwich and never came back. He formed a band called The Justified Ancients of MuMu with Jimmy Cauty and released a single in 1987. After two? albums and a legal dispute with ABBA they became The Timelords with a big novelty hit Doctoring The Tardis, then The JAMS (Justified Ancients of MuMu) with the single What Time Is Love which got re-issued a number of times from 1988 onward, then The K.L.F. Their brilliant warped career peaked a year later in 1992 at the BRIT Awards when Drummond machine-gunned the audience of music industry execs from the stage, and a dead sheep was left at the door of the afterparty with the message “I died for you – bon appetit” attached. A few months later in May 1992 The K.L.F. announced that they had quit the music business and deleted their entire back catalogue. Other stunts followed such as the infamous burning of a million pounds, the Soup Line, the 17 Choir and other innovative ideas. Apparently Bill Drummond lived just down the hill from me when I was in Brighton but I never met him, I don’t think.
Niall Buggy as Eric, Danny Webb as Morse
Back on the Alien3 set a few days later it was Valentine’s Day. I had been sent a card and an AD delivered it to me as we relaxed between shots. It was of course from Jenny my beloved. We were not married at that point. And I could swear Sigourney was looking over my shoulder to see who it was from. Hahaha. Fincher was shooting a lot of footage. “I’m doing long pans & track so they can’t cut into my footage” he explained one day. It meant that when we had a group scene we could open a book on how many takes it would be. Anything under five was unpopular. Over twelve was possible, common even. I think we did a tenner per set-up. Someone wrote the names down and the number they’d chosen. Often no one would win because we went up to Take 17 and no one wanted to put ten of your earth pounds on that.
Here’s an idea…
In fact Sigourney and I had one of our scenes discussing plans regarding telling the company their was an Alien on the planet, and playing a fella who wanted to go home to his wife and kids, rather than perish in some millennial cult group suicide, Aaron ’85’ suggested a plan. Ripley’s response was tentatively ‘yes maybe‘. We did a couple of wide shots, then into my single. Can’t remember how many takes it was – probably around seven or eight. Then turned round onto Sigourney. David didn’t like her tone, which suggested that Ripley thought Aaron was a dick. He didn’t think that was right at that point in the story. So. One more. Turn over. Sound Speed. Scene 178 take 17. Mark it. And….Action! Blah blah blah. Cut. Same result. He’s not your enemy. Take 22. Don’t sneer. Take 29. You think it’s a good idea. Take 34. By which time we were all so exhausted and dizzy from the repetition that Sigourney said the line in a kind of dazed acquiescence and Fincher had the take he wanted.
About a year later in Los Angeles, after the re-shoots, I had two days of ADR in a West LA studio on Olympic Boulevard. David remembered the scene well, 34 takes. He’d never done ADR before though – Automated Dialogue Replacement – where you can change the inflexion, emphasis, tone, shade and meaning of a line just by using your voice and matching the lip movements on screen in front of you precisely. Movie magic. Some actors hate it, I made friends with the process very early on after I had to voice the whole of my performance as Danny in Withnail & I for the US market. The test screenings had indicated that audience members couldn’t understand what he was saying. Who could? I did that piece of work at Twickenham Studios in 1987 where the engineer consoled me having to re-do my entire performance at the same speed except more intelligibly by telling me that Michael Caine had done Alfie and Bob Hoskins had also done The Long Good Friday for America. And yet we were expected to understand Stallone’s mumbles or Pacino’s – hey that’s what it means to be an outlying part of The Empire right? I can’t remember if I’ve ever seen the US version of Withnail but I suspect it would be a bad idea. But having said that the experience toughened me up for future sessions. Especially the Alien 3 session which was two long days – the reason for that was the amount of atmospheric smoke and steam in the design of the film which was very noisy to produce. Often back in the day on big movies the Sound Department knew that they were recording a guide track only, to be completed and polished in ADR. So here we were down on W. Olympic and David says – if I’d known about ADR in Pinewood I would never have done 34 takes just for a vocal inflection…
It’s hard to recall now in 2019 how difficult that experience was. Jenny can remember quite clearly how I would come home every day, full of doubt, full of worry and anguish, just because I was trying to do my best work. What a fantastic opportunity for me, but you know I was running fast just to stand still. I remember a visual image I used to produce while trying to explain it to friends, as a learning curve which came from my chest, looped back over my head and stabbed me in the back. I wondered if, at some point, whether the fact that we were making a horror film in space meant that we had to have a horrible experience in space. I called Richard E. Grant one day who was shooting Hudson Hawk in Italy – another picnic – and he asked me how much I was getting. I told him. He said
“well – that’s the amount of shit you have to eat then.”
I could almost understand why Bill Drummond had formed The K.L.F.
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New Release Blitz: Surface Tension by Valentine Wheeler
Posted on December 18, 2018 by Mirrigold
Surface Tension | Valentine Wheeler
Publisher: NineStar Press
Heat Level: 1 – No Sex
Pairing: Female/Female
Length: 34,500
Genre: Fantasy, mermaids, sailors, tentacles, romance, magic, scientists, abduction
NineStar Press | Amazon | Smashwords | Barnes & Noble | Kobo
Sarai runs away from home to find a new life on the high seas. She’s heard stories all her life of the things that lurk beneath the waves and the people who return to land with fractured memories and strange new scars.
When a storm brings her face to face with a creature unlike any she’s met, she discovers a whole new world under the sea.
Valentine Wheeler © 2018
The sturdy ship bobbed and shook in the pounding surf, its sails snapping uselessly in the wind without the crew’s firm hand. The three masts swayed and creaked, lines whipping free. Just off the bow on the starboard side, a ridged head broke the surface of the water, eerily still amidst the crashing waves. It cocked to one side, as if considering the scene before it, then slid back below the surface. On the other side of the ship, a forked tail flicked repeatedly, cresting the surface again and again as it circled to port. Another head bobbed up beside it, cutting smoothly through the water, its dark eyes searching.
The captain shouted orders, but his voice was drowned out by the thunder and the pounding of the rain on wood and canvas. He yanked lines, directed sailors, and spun the wheel, darting from disaster to catastrophe, trying to keep his course into the breaking waves rather than letting them sweep up the sides or the stern. But once the mainsail was furled, he grabbed his boatswain and gave up on riding the storm out or using the pounding winds’ power with any semblance of control. Instead, he climbed the rigging, holding tight to the ropes, and spread the word of their retreat. Then he sprinted to the cabin, where he threw open the door and gestured frantically at all the crew near him to come inside, below decks. He watched them scurry toward him, praying they’d make it before they perished like his quartermaster had, lost overboard in the swirling brine.
The boom swung and the main mast shuddered ominously as the wind tugged it first one way, and then the other. Lit haphazardly by one of the few lanterns not yet doused, a lone sailor struggled across the deck from the stern on her hands and knees, battered by the tempest. The rope around her waist had come loose, its waterlogged knot sliding from her hips, and she missed the grab for it before it vanished.
As she skidded along the slick, wet wood, the captain watched, helpless to save her and knowing she wouldn’t make it across the wide expanse of the deck.
The sailor’s small figure slid across the deck on the next swell, fighting for balance and a handhold, any handhold, on the slick wood but failing. The shadowed gazes of the creatures in the water tracked her. When she slammed into the railing and flipped over into the air, her captain’s cry soundless in the din of the crashing waves, the creatures had already disappeared beneath the spot where her body hit the water.
The sailor fought for air, breathing in a cold lungful of mist and burning sea-salt spray as her head burst through the waves. The creature held back, eyes glinting in the lightning flash from below in the dark-green water. The woman’s struggles began to weaken, and the creature inched closer, keeping carefully out of her sight line, an easy dance of fins, tentacles, and long, webbed fingers keeping it still in the rush of the current and the churning sea spray above.
As her movements slowed, the creature licked its lips with a long, black tongue, pointed teeth shining in the brief glimmers of lantern light that found their way through the darkness.
Valentine is a latecomer to writing, though she’s always been a passionate reader. Through fanfiction, she found her way to an incredible community of writers who’ve taught her to love making stories.
When she isn’t writing, she’s making bad puns, yelling about television, or playing with her small child.
Her life’s ambition is to eat the cuisine of every single country. Find Valentine on Twitter.
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Marion Park Lewis Foundation
The Marion Park Lewis Foundation was established in 1992 to provide arts education opportunities to residents of the northern Shenandoah Valley. Since that time
more than 2.5 million dollars in grants have been awarded.
Applications for Grants for 2019-20
The Marion Park Lewis Foundation for the Arts will be accepting applications for arts education grants until March 15, 2019. Last year, nearly $150,000 was presented to local artists and organizations.
Awards will be made for specific educational projects that develop the talent and knowledge of the artist or participants of a non-profit group. Grants may be applied toward the cost of training (domestic or abroad), and course(s) of study in secondary schools, colleges, or universities. Grantees may also study or work with art companies, such as ballet or opera companies, or study with individual artists. Recipients should demonstrate talent and promise in a recognized art form. The evaluators look for evidence of commitment to the chosen discipline as a career choice, as well as accomplishment and potential.
Applicants should be residents of, and organizations should be located in, the Northern Shenandoah Valley, including the cities of Winchester and Harrisonburg and the counties of Frederick, Clarke, Warren, Shenandoah, Page, and Rockingham in Virginia, and the counties of Jefferson and Berkeley in West Virginia.
Process Time Line
Applications and guidelines will be posted to this website. Use the navigation bar at the left.
Deadline: Applications must be postmarked no later than March 15.
Panel decisions will be mailed.
Recipients will receive a Progress Report for return by January 15.
Individual Applicants
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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update: Everything you need to know
by Mehedi Hassan
@mehedih_
Jul 9, 2017 at 12:25 GMT 2 years ago
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is the next big update for Microsoft’s operating system. The Fall Creators Update is the second Windows 10 update that’s focused on creativity, but it is still bringing a lot of new things for regular users. So what exactly is coming with the new Fall Creators Update this Fall? Here’s everything you need to know.
A new design
Remember Project NEON? It’s now official, and it has a new name: the Microsoft Fluent Design System. With the Microsoft Fluent Design System, Microsoft is effectively giving Windows a new look. It’s an enormous update, and it will take a long while before all the parts of the OS take advantage of the new design system. Microsoft has already rolled out some of the elements of Fluent Design in Windows 10 for those in the Windows Insider program, but the majority of the OS is still lacking the new design.
The new design focuses heavily on Acrylic (read: blur) and it works with other components of the system, including things like Light, Depth, Motion, Material, and Scale. At the moment, Windows 10 Insider Preview releases also include effects like Reveal and Connected Animations which provide an extra amount of fluidity to the apps.
Windows 10’s new My People is finally coming with the Fall Creators Update. The feature was initially expected to arrive with the Creators Update back in April but it’s now coming with the Fall Creators Update instead. The new My People experience in Windows 10 gives you access to your most frequent contacts right from the taskbar of Windows 10. The feature can be disabled, so if you’re not a big fan of it, you can simply turn it off.
But if you choose to keep it turned on, you can do a lot of cool things. The feature lets you easily interact with your contacts via apps like Skype, Outlook Mail, and others. For instance, you can easily share a picture by dragging and dropping it from your desktop to a contact on the taskbar. You can also chat with them right from the taskbar which is actually really handy. Third-party developers can also integrate My People into their apps, which means apps like Facebook Messenger may also integrate with My People in the near-future.
OneDrive Placeholders are back
Microsoft is finally bringing back OneDrive Placeholders with the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The company is calling the new feature “OneDrive Files on Demand” and it will allow you save space on your device by letting you view files when you need them. Rather than downloading all the files on your OneDrive, the Files on Demand feature will essentially download the files as you need them. OneDrive Files On-Demand is already available to Windows Insiders, and it also works better with the Universal Windows Apps now.
Pick Up Where You Left Off on phones
Microsoft is also evolving the Pick Up Where You Left Off feature with the Fall Creators Update in Windows 10. As you may remember, this feature actually launched with the Creators Update but Microsoft is making some updates to the feature to make it accessible to all Windows 10 users. With the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Pick Up Where You Left Off will work across Windows, iOS, and Android thanks to Cortana. Using Pick Up Where You Left Off, users can start working on a document, app, or website on their PC and continue working on it from their phone which is really neat.
A new way of storytelling
Similar to the Windows 10 Creators Update, the Fall Creators Update will include another new creative app in Windows 10. This new creative experience in Windows 10’s Microsoft Photos app will allow users to “transform” their photos and videos. The app uses Microsoft Graph to automatically create Memories with your photos and videos — which you can share as a video with cinematic transitions, soundtrack, and theme. Moreover, Microsoft is also letting users add 3D objects to their videos and photos which will take things a step further for all of your posts on Facebook.
A new Action Center
Microsoft is also redesigning the Action Center in Windows 10. The new Action Center heavily uses Fluent Design’s Acrylic material, which makes it look a lot nicer than the current Action Center in Windows 10. The new design isn’t significantly different from the current one, but it includes some key changes. For example, Microsoft is adding a lot of padding to the notifications and it should now work much better on devices with a touch display. However, the notifications now take up a lot of space which means you don’t really get to see all of your notifications without scrolling down.
In addition to the improved design of the Action Center, Microsoft has also improved the design for the toast notifications. They are no longer attached to the Action Center itself, which actually looks way better than the current design. Just like the Action Center, the new toast notifications also take advantage of the Acrylic material from Fluent Design. It’s still a missing I and some other users have been requesting for a while: the ability to set the toast notification position on multi-monitor setups.
A built-in emoji picker and a new keyboard
With the Fall Creators Update, Microsoft is finally adding a built-in emoji picker to the Windows 10. That means you will longer need to open up the touch keyboard or search on Google/Bing for an emoji. Instead, you can just WIN + . or Win + ; to open up the emoji picker, search for an emoji, and voila.
Microsoft is also adding a brand new touch keyboard to Windows 10 with the Fall Creators Update. For one, the touch keyboard now supports swiping and if you have used the Windows Phone keyboard before, you will love the new one. Microsoft has added things like emoji prediction, a new one-handed touch mode, improved handwriting panel, and more as well for the Fall Creators Update.
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is a pretty huge update in terms of features. Microsoft has added a lot of little things to the OS that’ll be coming to everyone later this year. Here’s a quick list of some of the biggest things in the update:
Start Menu now includes Fluent Design’s Acrylic material
Microsoft Edge now supports fullscreen mode, lets you pin websites to the taskbar, and inking support for PDFs
Find My Device now lets you find your pen/stylus and you can also now scroll with your pen/stylus
Power Throttling
You can FINALLY see your GPU’s performance in the Task Manager
UWP apps now work with the volume mixer
Windows Defender Application Guard
Fall Creators Update
Microsoft Fluent Design System
OneDrive Files On-Demand
Pick Up Where You Left Off
Project NEON
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Ty Tabor: King's X
byScott Kahn
Why You Should Know Him
Ty Tabor is the guitarist for the progressive rock band, King's X. The band released three albums from 1988 to 1990 that put them on the map: Out of the Silent Planet, Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, and Faith Hope Love. Each spent time on the Billboard 200 charts with a unique sound that did not really sit in any specific rock, pop, or metal genre. It was the video for "Over My Head" from Gretchen Goes to Nebraska that first brought the band to the original MTV generation, and the subsequent album's video for the hit song, "It's Love," further cemented their presence in the rock world.
The three-piece band forged their own sonic landscape based on the inspirations of all three members. Not being pigeonholed into any specific genre allowed the band to create their own sound, though you can clearly hear the Beatles influence in the three-part vocal harmonies, and Ty's soloing certainly displays hints of Hendrix.
But King's X was able to take these influences and implemented them in a way that became their own signature sound. Another aspect of the King's X sound is the fact that they are a three-piece band that writes three-piece rock music. There are no layers of guitars and studio production that is impossible to recreate live. Even during solos, the bass and drums are able to carry the rhythm while Tabor plays lead, and they still sound larger than some bands do with layers and layers of rhythm guitars. That is a testament to just how well the band members compliment each other's playing style to showcase their individual talents.
We spoke directly with Tabor to find out about his early guitars and amps. In the early ‘80s, Tabor played a Fender Elite Stratocaster with active Fender pickups. He loved the tone so much that when he later switched to other guitars, he had the preamp circuitry removed from the Fender and rack mounted in a custom setup so that his other guitars could run through it for the special tone he loved.
Around this time, Tabor was playing through a LAB Series L5 amp. One day, he blew out one of the power sections in the amp, and the tone it produced from just the preamp section was absolutely phenomenal. Instead of fixing the power section, Tabor had it removed completely and ran the L5 preamp into a Sun Microtech power amp, from there feeding into Marshall cabinets with Celesion V30s.
Running through his effects loop, Tabor had some familiar and popular rack gear: an Alesis MIDIverb and a Roland D-1000 digital delay w/modulation, often used to generate his chorus sound. The D-1000 was a relatively noisy effects unit, but had a unique sound in the delay that Tabor felt wasn’t captured by the later, quieter Roland models.
Tabor used an Ibanez noise suppressor, which began life as a pedal, but was later gutted and stuck in his rack. On floor, sometimes Tabor would put a flanger pedal in front of his, and the Dunlop wah pedal seen on the floor was typically just controlling a rack-mounted wah.
When King’s X recorded Dogman, Tabor changed his guitar sound significantly. Mesa Dual Rectifiers became his primary tone machines, complemented by a 100W Marshall, blended, but mostly what you hear is dominant Mesa tone. Later, he switched to Egnater amps, which he still uses in the studio.
After Fender, he played Hamer guitars, then Zion, then Yamaha, many featuring a familiar X logo on them. Today, Tabor uses Guilford Guitars in the studio, but not wanting to risk damaging them, he has returned to playing Fender Stratocasters while on tour.
Eventually, Tabor caught the modeling amp bug, and toured with a first-generation Fractal Audio Axe FX Ultra for a few years. Most recently, however, he switched to the current rig, which has Orange CR120 Pro amps, which Tabor finds sound the closest to his classic LAB tone. His pedalboard now includes a Mojo Hand FX Rook Royale boost/distortion (mainly used for boost) into a Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeler for long, washed-out delays, short delays for leads, or very fast delays with just a few ms delay and modulation for his chorus tone. The delay runs into a [Sweet Sound] Ultra Vibe, then into a tuner, and finally into the front end of the Orange amp. Tabor uses Lava cables and has extremely high praise for their sound.
Where Is He Now?
Tabor is still writing and touring with King's X. The band has released twelve studio albums as well as several live CDs and DVDs. On top of his work with King's X, Tabor has released eight solo albums, and a total of eleven albums with sidebands The Jelly Jam (featuring Dream Theater's John Myung on bass and Winger/Dixie Dregs drummer Rod Morgenstein), Jughead, Platypus, and Xenophobe.
In addition to the albums Tabor made with King's X, he also found time to make guest appearances on over a dozen projects through the years. Tabor contributed solos on "In the Hands of God", and "Everything" for the album Frequency Unknown by Geoff Tate's Queensryche. He also set up his own Alien Beans Studio in 1996, where he has mastered all of King's X recordings since.
In 2016, The Jelly Jam released their latest record, Profit, and Tabor is currently working on a new solo album to be released in 2017. While we wait, Tabor continues to tour with King's X.
www.tytabor.com
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Scott Kahn, Editor in Chief, was the co-founder and associate editor of Korg Connection, the first official user group publication for users of Korg musical instruments. During a decade of work in Silicon Valley, CA, Scott wrote professionally for computer industry publications including PC Week Magazine and NewMedia Magazine. Outside of work, Scott is an accomplished musician and producer with many independent CD credits writing, playing, and producing. Scott launched MusicPlayers.com in 1998 as a simple website hosting musicians' classifieds for the first few years, but he knew that when the time was right, he would turn his attention to building MusicPlayers.com into the kind of destination site that he wanted to visit as a serious musician himself. In March 2006, MusicPlayers.com was officially re-launched as an online magazine focused on the needs of serious musicians, and in December 2017, the site underwent a next-generation overhaul to position it better for continued growth. Scott is also author of the popular Hal-Leonard book, Modern Guitar Rigs: The Tone Fanatic's Guide to Integrating Amps & Effects, now in its second edition.
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The Cia's Secret Weapon In Afghanistan? ... Viagra
By Noam Scheiber
Or, as the WaPo puts it in this piece, "pharmaceutical enhancements for aging patriarchs with slumping libidos." Here's how it works--that is, for collecting intelligence, not biochemically:
The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.
Four blue pills. Viagra.
"Take one of these. You'll love it," the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.
The enticement worked. The officer, who described the encounter, returned four days later to an enthusiastic reception. The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes -- followed by a request for more pills.
According to the Post, Viagra has tactical advantages over more traditional inducements:
The usual bribes of choice -- cash and weapons -- aren't always the best options, Afghanistan veterans say. Guns too often fall into the wrong hands, they say, and showy gifts such as money, jewelry and cars tend to draw unwanted attention.
"If you give an asset $1,000, he'll go out and buy the shiniest junk he can find, and it will be apparent that he has suddenly come into a lot of money from someone," said Jamie Smith, a veteran of CIA covert operations in Afghanistan and now chief executive of SCG International, a private security and intelligence company. "Even if he doesn't get killed, he becomes ineffective as an informant because everyone knows where he got it."
The key, Smith said, is to find a way to meet the informant's personal needs in a way that keeps him firmly on your side but leaves little or no visible trace.
"You're trying to bridge a gap between people living in the 18th century and people coming in from the 21st century," Smith said, "so you look for those common things in the form of material aid that motivate people everywhere." ...
Afghan tribal leaders often had four wives -- the maximum number allowed by the Koran -- and aging village patriarchs were easily sold on the utility of a pill that could "put them back in an authoritative position," the official said.
I shudder to think what the pharmaceutical lobby will do with a national security rationale in its back pocket.
--Noam Scheiber
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by Kevin Helms
Venezuela’s New Crypto Rules Enter Into Force
The decree establishing a legal framework for cryptocurrencies in Venezuela has entered into force. It contains 63 articles including rules for the purchase, sale, use, distribution, and exchange of cryptocurrencies and related products. It also mandates a registration system and details audit procedures, penalties for non-compliance, and how mining equipment can be confiscated.
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Legal Framework for Cryptocurrencies
Venezuela’s “Constituent Decree on the Integral System of Crypto Assets” has been published in the country’s official gazette. The decree establishing the legal framework for cryptocurrencies and all related activities contains 63 articles; it entered into force with the publication in the gazette.
Ramirez Joselit, the Superintendent of Sunacrip, Venezuela’s Superintendency of Crypto Assets and Related Activities, tweeted on Jan. 31:
Today the constituent decree that will govern the operation of the Integral System of Crypto Assets of Venezuela was published in Official Gazette Number 41.575.
The 63 articles are grouped into six sections. The first section comprises articles 1 to 5 which outline general information about the decree including its objectives and scope of application. It also defines blockchain, digital mining, crypto asset, sovereign crypto asset, cryptography, user, and public price.
The second section explains the “structure of the Integral System of Crypto Assets” in articles 6 to 28. The third section sets rules for the new registration system in articles 29 to 33 while the fourth details the audit and inspection procedures in articles 34 to 41. Articles 42 to 51 make up the fifth section which discusses offenses and penalties whereas articles 52 to 63 are found in the last section which mostly describes administrative procedures.
“The purpose of this constituent decree is to create and define the regulatory framework applicable to the Integral System of Crypto Assets,” the gazette reads. According to article 3:
The scope of application of this constituent decree [covers] goods, services, values or activities related to the constitution, issuance, organization, operation and use of [the] national crypto assets and [other] crypto assets, within the national territory, as well as the purchase, sale, use, distribution and exchange of any product or service derived from them and other activities that are connected.
Sunacrip and the Registration System
Sunacrip, which has already been acting as the regulator of all crypto-related activities in Venezuela, has been given even more power by the decree which states:
[Sunacrip] will exercise the broadest powers within the legal and constitutional framework, to regulate the creation, issuance, organization, operation and use of crypto assets, and consequently, to regulate the operation of the exchange houses and other crypto asset financial services, as well as activities associated with digital mining.
In addition, individuals and legal entities wanting to carry out crypto-related activities including mining are required to register with Sunacrip. Article 11 states that the regulator must “coordinate and monitor the records of digital miners, exchange houses and other financial services” that deal with crypto assets. Article 29 further calls for the regulator to “create the necessary records to systematize the information corresponding to digital miners, exchange houses, other financial services in crypto assets and the intermediation of crypto assets.”
Article 33 states that Sunacrip “will establish the public prices applicable to the system of registry, to the exchange operations, as well as to the services that lend and other considerations.”
Inspections and Confiscations
Article 34 of the decree details how Sunacrip will inspect the activities in the cryptocurrency sector to ensure compliance.
If any signs of non-compliance are detected during an inspection, measures will be taken to prevent further violations, article 37 describes. These measures may consist of confiscation of any mining equipment found, and the “suspension of licenses, permits or authorizations” issued by Sunacrip, as well as the suspension of “Any other provision in the legal system to prevent the violation of the rights of citizens.” The article further details:
When the confiscation measure is ordered on mining equipment, the superintendency will keep the respective assets, which … may be arranged for social purposes.
With all of the new powers granted to Sunacrip, Criptonoticias news outlet commented that “This could mean that Sunacrip would be in a position to monitor any platform that serves the commercialization of cryptocurrencies in Venezuela, whether national or international, centralized or decentralized … which would encompass services like the one offered by Localbitcoins.”
The decree also proclaims heavy penalties for unlicensed crypto activities, including mining. According to article 42:
Those who operate or perform any type of activity related to the constitution, issuance, organization, operation and use of sovereign crypto assets or [other] crypto assets, including mining, without the due authorization of the governing body and in breach of the other formalities required by this constituent decree, will be sanctioned with a fine equivalent to 100 to 300 sovereign crypto assets.
Furthermore, article 43 states that those who have obtained, accessed, intercepted, interfered or used “information technologies related to the Integral System of Crypto Assets” without proper authorization “will be punished with imprisonment from one (01) to three (03) years and fined equivalent of fifty (50) to one hundred (100) sovereign crypto assets.” Criptonoticias noted that this rule applies not only to miners but also to “any person that is related to the management of crypto assets.”
What do you think of these Venezuelan crypto rules? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Central Construction Fined $90,000 After Young Worker Killed While Working At Heights
Archived Court Bulletin
March 20, 2015 3:15 P.M.
Ministry of Labour
KITCHENER, ON - A construction firm pleaded guilty and has been fined $90,000 following the death of a young worker on a high-rise student housing project in Waterloo.
On October 11, 2013 the worker was on the job site along with others at 185 King Street North in Waterloo. Central Construction had been subcontracted by Maison Canada, the primary constructor, to perform masonry work at the project.
The young worker was working on the 12th storey of the building, assisting in the delivery of concrete blocks to the roof. A tower crane had lifted a skid of concrete blocks to the roof and placed the skid onto wood planking. The way it was placed caused the skid to rest on an angle, creating a potential hazard (the blocks weighed about 3,500 pounds). The workers on the roof decided that the skid of blocks should be re-landed flat onto the roof; the load was re-strapped and lifted up and out. The skid then suddenly propelled toward an exterior parapet wall that surrounded the roof top.
The young worker was situated between the parapet wall and the skid of blocks; the worker hung on to the skid of blocks, which proceeded to trolley out, and crashed through the exterior parapet wall, knocking the worker from the roof top. The young worker fell four storeys to a mast climber (a type of powered scaffold that lifts and lowers); the fall was about 13.2 metres (43.3 feet).
The young worker was trained in fall protection but was not using any form of fall protection at the time of the incident. The parapet wall was 23-1/2 inches high (.59 metres) and did not constitute a guardrail. The worker sustained head and leg injuries and later died as a result of the fall.
Central Construction pleaded guilty to failing as an employer to ensure that a fall restricting system is used where a guardrail system is not reasonably possible, and was fined $90,000 by Justice of the Peace Michael A. Cuthbertson.
In addition to the fine, the court imposed a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.
A 'young worker' is defined as a worker younger than 25 years old. New and young workers in Ontario are three times more likely to be injured during their first month on the job than at any other time.
Court Information at a Glance
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77 Queen Street North
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Judge:
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Defendant:
1412768 Ontario Ltd. operating as Central Construction
7756 Breen Drive
RR #3
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Conviction:
Occupational Health and Safety Act
Section 25(1)(c)
Ontario Regulation 213/91 (Construction Projects Regulation)
Section 26.1(2)
Crown Counsel: Jennifer Malabar
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Bernie Sanders stays on the stump after receiving stitches for head wound
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Sanders' team told reporters shortly before a health care panel on Friday that he received seven stitches – along with a clean bill of health – at a local walk-in post-surgery clinic "on the edge of a glass shower door. "
Sanders did not acknowledge the bandage over his left eye, except to briefly attend the area around the sutures, during his panel with patients and health care experts at the International Longshoremen's Local Association 1422 Union Hall in Charleston.
After 20 local clergy members, the campaign said. He wants to carry on as scheduled to Nevada for a rally on Saturday.
Sanders' second appearance in Palmetto State, where he lost to Hillary Clinton in the 201
6 primary, since beginning his 2020 presidential campaign almost a month ago. Charleston Baptist Church (19659005) "Tonight, we say very clearly on the private health insurance companies, whether you like or not "The United States of America wants to join every other major country on Earth and make sure it's a good one," Sanders told the crowd, "Making his Medicare for all pitch. "You know, and I want you all to know this, every day in the newspapers there's another columnist, and editorial attacking me – 'this is an impractical idea.' You can tell the people of Canada and Germany and Scandinavia and France and the United Kingdom. "
"We have a system in which insurance companies and drug companies make and still have millions of Americans who can not afford to go to the doctor, "Sanders told the gathering. "To me, that's pretty crazy stuff."
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by Ike Obudulu Posted on June 17th, 2019
KPMG LLP, one of the big four accounting firms, will pay $50 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it altered past audit work after receiving stolen information from an industry watchdog.
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged KPMG LLP with altering past audit work after receiving stolen information about inspections of the firm that would be conducted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). The SEC’s order also finds that numerous KPMG audit professionals cheated on internal training exams by improperly sharing answers and manipulating test results.
KPMG agreed to settle the charges by paying a $50 million penalty and complying with a detailed set of undertakings, including retaining an independent consultant to review and assess the firm’s ethics and integrity controls and its compliance with various undertakings.
“High-quality financial statements prepared and reviewed in accordance with applicable accounting principles and professional standards are the bedrock of our capital markets. KPMG’s ethical failures are simply unacceptable,” said SEC Chairman Jay Clayton. “The resolution the Enforcement Division has reached holds KPMG accountable for its past failures and provides for continuing, heightened oversight to protect our markets and our investors.”
“The breadth and seriousness of the misconduct at issue here is, frankly, astonishing,” said Steven Peikin, Co-Director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division. “This settlement reflects the need to severely punish this sort of wrongdoing while putting in place measures designed to prevent its recurrence.”
“This conduct was particularly troubling because of the unique position of trust that audit professionals hold,” said Stephanie Avakian, Co-Director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division. “Investors and other market professionals rely on these gatekeepers to fulfill a critical role in our capital markets.”
Five former KPMG officials were charged last year in a case alleging they schemed to interfere with the PCAOB’s ability to detect audit deficiencies at KPMG. According to the SEC’s order issued today against KPMG, these senior personnel sought and obtained confidential PCAOB lists of inspection targets because the firm had experienced a high rate of audit deficiency findings in prior inspections and improvement had become a priority. Armed with the PCAOB data, the now-former KPMG personnel oversaw a program to review and revise certain audit work papers after the audit reports had been issued to reduce the likelihood of deficiencies being found during inspections.
The SEC’s order also finds that KPMG audit professionals who had passed training exams sent their answers to colleagues to help them also attain passing scores. The exams related to continuing professional education and training mandated by a prior SEC order finding audit failures. They sent images of their answers by email or printed answers and gave them to colleagues. This included lead audit engagement partners who not only sent exam answers to other partners, but also solicited answers from and sent answers to their subordinates.
Furthermore, the SEC’s order finds that certain KPMG audit professionals manipulated an internal server hosting training exams to lower the score required for passing. By changing a number embedded in a hyperlink, they manually selected the minimum passing scores required for exams. At times, audit professionals achieved passing scores while answering less than 25 percent of the questions correctly.
“The sanctions will protect our markets by promoting an ethical culture at KPMG,” said Melissa Hodgman, Associate Director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division. “To that end, KPMG will take additional remedial steps to address the misconduct and further strengthen its quality controls, all of which will be reviewed and assessed by an independent consultant.”
In addition to paying a $50 million penalty, KPMG is required to evaluate its quality controls relating to ethics and integrity, identify audit professionals that violated ethics and integrity requirements in connection with training examinations within the past three years, and comply with a cease-and-desist order. The SEC’s order requires KPMG to retain an independent consultant to review and assess the firm’s ethics and integrity controls and its investigation.
KPMG has admitted the facts in the SEC’s order. It has also acknowledged that its conduct violated a PCAOB rule requiring the firm to maintain integrity in the performance of a professional service and provides a basis for the SEC to impose remedies against the firm pursuant to Sections 4C(a)(2) and (a)(3) of the Exchange Act and Rules 102(e)(1)(ii) and (iii) of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.
In an email statement, a company spokesperson said KPMG has learned important lessons and is a stronger firm because of steps taken to improve its culture, governance and compliance program.
The investigation, which also involved the Justice Department, resulted in January 2018 criminal charges against three former PCAOB officials. Federal prosecutors accused the employees, who went on to work for KPMG, of stealing information tied to PCAOB exams.
In its Monday statement, the SEC said its probe is continuing.
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Booster Clubs: Coast to Coast Update
Three months ago, NCSE launched a national expansion of our Science Booster Club (SBC) program. Many of the new clubs have already started holding events, and more are scheduled through the spring and summer. We estimate that in just the first three months of operation, around 3,000 people have participated in SBC events held by volunteer-led clubs in California, West Virginia, Ohio, Texas, Nebraska, and Indiana. Events are also scheduled in Kentucky, Virginia, and Oklahoma.
The March for Science Speech I Would Have Given
I spent Saturday wet, cold, but exhilarated nonetheless, on the National Mall, with some 40,000 other participants in the March for Science. NCSE was one of the earliest partners of the march, and our logo was prominently displayed on the big stage. There were dozens of speakers with stories that spanned generations and disciplines. NCSE didn't have a speaking role, but I found myself wondering what I would have said if we did.
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Fresh Hot Data!
I’m sure everybody reading this is as excited as I am for another dose of scientific literacy data. You may remember our last data update, where we revealed the exciting news of significant improvement in scientific literacy in Cedar Rapids over a six month time period. Now we’ve collected data for a year and can show you some cool numbers not only from Cedar Rapids, but now also from Iowa City.
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Grand Canyon and Fear of the Water
NCSE's annual raft trip down the Grand Canyon just returned, and Teacher Scholarship winner Crystal Davis offered to describe her experience on the river with us. Enjoy, and consider donating to the scholarship fund to support future trips like this.
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Here at NCSE, we tend to frown on formal staged debates, especially about science itself. But in this political season, there’s an exception to be made.
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Irish look to close out home matches against conference rivals, Ball State
Observer Sports Staff | Thursday, April 12, 2018
The No. 25 Irish are set to host three home matches this weekend over the course of three days, including a doubleheader Sunday.
First, Notre Dame (13-11, 4-4 ACC) will take on conference-foe Miami (FL) on Friday afternoon, beginning at 3:30 p.m. On Sunday, Notre Dame faces off against No. 9 Florida State at 11:30 a.m. and Ball State at 4:30 p.m. All matches will take place at the Courtney Tennis Center.
The Irish are coming off a 5-2 victory over No. 21 Duke at home last Friday.
In singles action against the Blue Devils (13-10, 4-4 ACC), sophomore Guillermo Cabrera lost the first set of his match 6-3 before winning the final two sets 6-3, 7-6 (6) on the No. 3 court. Three courts over, junior Grayson Broadus won his first set 7-5 before dropping the second set 6-2. Broadus won the deciding set 6-2. Junior captain Alex Lebedev (6-0, 6-4) and freshman Richard Ciamarra (6-4, 6-2) won their respective matches on courts No. 1 and 2, respectively.
During the doubles competition against Duke, the pair of senior Brendon Kempin and freshman Tristan McCormick defeated their opponent 6-4 on court No. 1, while the team of Broadus and Ciamarra won a close match by a score of 7-6 (3) on court No. 3.
The Hurricanes (12-8, 3-5 ACC) are coming off of a 7-0 road loss to Virginia Tech on Sunday. The Seminoles (23-2, 14-0 ACC) defeated Virginia 5-2 on Sunday and will take on Boston College on Thursday before traveling to South Bend for Sunday’s match. The Cardinals (13-8, 2-3 MAC) defeated IUPUI 5-2 on Wednesday. This weekend’s matches mark the final home competition for the team before taking on conference rivals Georgia Tech and Clemson to conclude the regular season.
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Sears Closes, Black Bear Growls, Sams Sells & Burgers Go Big
March, 2018 Issue
It was only a matter of time. Sears in Marin is toast. Anybody who spent time in the Sears store at San Rafael’s Northgate Center knew the retailer wasn’t long for the world, the Sears brand has been on the ropes for years. It was taken over by hedge funder Eddie Lampert in 2005, who failed to invest in the retailer allowing the stores to become outdated as retailers were going digital. Lambert controls ESL Investments, the hedge fun he founded. ESL and Lambert own close to 30 percent of Sears and Lambert is chief executive officer.
Behaving as if he were a private equity investor, Lampert bought the famed retailer on the cheap and proceeded to sell its assets off. The Craftsman tool line was sold for $900 million to Stanley Black & Decker Inc. Sears Canada was sold for $80 million and Sears Hometown went bye bye for just $45 million.
It wasn’t just vanishing brands and a failure to update stores. Sears hung onto Kmart, another low end troubled retailer without improving it. It spun off Land’s End into a separate business via IPO, but hung onto more than 40 percent of the business—never knew what to do with in the first place.
To be completely fair, brick and mortar retail is being challenged on all fronts now as more shoppers opt to spend dollars with Amazon and other sites. Sears is not alone in shuttering stores, another Northgate neighbor, Macy’s, is closing stores as well and is shuttering its Novato furniture store. And Toys R Us in San Rafael is a goner as well.
But Sears’ failure has been coming down the road for years. So local employees are the victim of bad decisions made in Hoffman Estates, Ill. And Merlone Geier Partners which bought the mall last year, now has a pretty large hole to fill. The investor has been trying to figure out how to reposition the shopping center, flogging the idea of Northgate being a community gathering place and asking folks to fill out an online survey.
The good news is the closing of Sears gives Merlone lots of flexibility to move Northgate in a different direction.
Black Bear madness
Staying in the same neighborhood, Black Bear Diner is finally open and the family friendly chain known for substantial portions is jammed with cars stacking up in the Terra Linda lot like the pancakes inside.
Business is so good that the owners of the franchise, Karan Gogri and Sanjiv Patel, are making plans to open a second Black Bear in Marin, possibly in Novato or in Corte Madera. Gorgi and Patel own and operate a location in Danville. They hold a development agreement with Black Bear to open 19 restaurants over the next six years. Each eatery costs about between $1 million and $1.5 million to open.
While Marin residents can often be heard advocating for organic produce, free range chicken, grass fed beef, cage free eggs and vegetarian fare, it seems that simpler stick-to-your-ribs grub may be more popular than one might imagine. Check the Marin Moment for another indicator that Marin is digging simple food.
Sam’s Anchor Café sold
The venerable restaurant on the water, Sam’s Anchor Café in Tiburon has been sold. Brian Wilson and Steve Sears have sold the place to a group of locals from the Tiburon-Belvdere area. News of the sale has been quiet, the opposite of what a sunny weekend brunch on the deck at Sam’s is like.
Years ago a limited partnership of 14 people bought Sam’s, with each partner ponying up $6,000 for a 5 percent piece. When this sale took place, the only partners remaining were Wilson and Sears.
A change of ownership notice from the ABC was posted at Sam’s. No word on what if any changes the new ownership might have in mind for the local landmark.
Hope you aren’t full yet since Shake Shack is coming to Larkspur. While the chain has 100 U.S. locations, only seven of them are in California, with none of them in Northern California. The chain is famed for the Shackburger, crinkle-cut fries and old fashioned shakes. It is part of the gourmet burger wave, which includes Super Duper, Gott’s Roadside and The Counter. There’s a Super Duper in Novato and Mill Valley, a Counter in Corte Madera and Gott’s Roadside will open in Greenbrae this year.
If Marin isn’t careful it will become the hamburger headquarters, a burger breeding ground, the fries’ focal point and a milkshake magnet.
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Nosh Creative | Spec Ops Burrito
Nosh Creative is a full-service, graphic design firm that specializes in restaurant & bar branding development with offices in Dallas, Texas and Taos, New Mexico.
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Spec Ops Burrito
Founded by a United States Marine, “Eat a Burrito, Save a Hero” is the tagline for Spec Ops Burrito in Ft. Worth, Texas. When you eat a burrito, part of the proceeds will be donated to help wounded veterans, their families, and families that have lost loved ones from serving.
A series of icons were created out of burritos and used throughout the branding. Nosh also designed a concept lookbook that provided an interior design layout for potential landlords to understand the look / feel of the SOB concept. The to-go menu was then created after the owners landed a space in Ft. Worth.
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"Ho - Ho - Ho": Lewd Dancing for World Youth Day - for "Pope" Francis!
CAUTION! Grave Immodesty in Video Below It will be practically impossible for a male to watch this video without committing sin! We are making this available only to demonstrate the vileness of the Novus Ordo Religion
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CAUTION! Grave Immodesty It will be practically impossible for a male to watch this video without committing sin! We are making this available only to demonstrate the vileness of the Novus Ordo Religion
The Vatican II Sect's Theology of the Body is back - after all, it's time for what the secular media has dubbed the "Catholic Woodstock", World Youth Day (invented by John Paul II in 1985). And what would World Youth Day be without grave sins against chastity and holy purity? This year, the attendees are being asked to participate in "the world's greatest flash mob" performing a lewd dance that is to be presented to "Pope Francis" on Sunday, July 28. To this end, the World Youth Day (WYD) organizers have created an instructional video and planned rehearsals on site in Rio de Janeiro: The video above - which we beg you NOT to watch due to the lewd dance moves and very revealing clothing (and lack of clothing) - is an instructional clip that explains (in Portuguese) how the dance, performed to the song "Francisco", works. (The Novus Ordo Site Rome Reports has a video report on this, which includes many horrifically-immodest scenes from the above video.) In addition to the video instructions, there will be sundry official rehearsals on-site in Rio to practice the filthy dance moves. Published on the official WYD site, there is a news item dated July 5, 2013, titled "Artistic Shows during Main Events will show a Young Church", which advertizes the flash mob dance rehearsals:
Saturday [July 27] will be filled with musical performances. At different times in the program, pilgrims will be able to attend the rehearsal of the great flash mob that will be presented to Pope Francis on Sunday.
It is not clear at this point whether participation in the unchaste and indecent flash mob dance is considered part of the "sacred functions" which WYD attendants must follow "with due devotion" in order to gain the plenary "indulgence" the Novus Ordo Vatican is offering to all who participate in the "Catholic" Woodstock (source). The true purpose of clothing is to conceal the body, not to reveal it, something the Novus Ordo Church takes pride in forgetting. As the above video demonstrates, the New Church has made youngsters into people who act and dress like whores while believing themselves to be devout Catholics. No one is more vulnerable to committing sins of the flesh than the young (cf. Job 13:26), whether in thought, desire, or deed, and of course these sins are of such a nature as to be able to ensnare a soul for decades if the proper precautions are not maintained. They must therefore be guarded against with particular vigilance: "Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world" (1 Peter 5:8-9). Genuinely Catholic resources for modesty and purity, specifically for youngsters and people in courtship, can be found here. Our Lady of Fatima said that more souls go to hell for sins of the flesh than for any other sin. The Vatican II Sect is clearly doing its part for making sure it stays that way. It is thus not surprising that WYD "pilgrims" are being counseled "not to get caught up in packing your luggage and bring too much clothing". Alas, clothing is one thing these World Youth Day participants typically don't bring too much of. The Vatican II Sect is a soul-destroying enterprise from the deepest pits of hell.
Lewd Dancing for World Youth Day
From our “I Lost My Innocence at World Youth Day” Department…
“Ho – Ho – Ho”:
– for “Pope” Francis!
CAUTION! Grave Immodesty in Video Below
It will be practically impossible for a male to watch this video without committing sin! We are making this available only to demonstrate the vileness of the Novus Ordo Religion
CAUTION! Grave Immodesty
The Vatican II Sect’s Theology of the Body is back – after all, it’s time for what the secular media has dubbed the “Catholic Woodstock”, World Youth Day (invented by John Paul II in 1985). And what would World Youth Day be without grave sins against chastity and holy purity?
This year, the attendees are being asked to participate in “the world’s greatest flash mob” performing a lewd dance that is to be presented to “Pope Francis” on Sunday, July 28. To this end, the World Youth Day (WYD) organizers have created an instructional video and planned rehearsals on site in Rio de Janeiro:
The video above – which we beg you NOT to watch due to the lewd dance moves and very revealing clothing (and lack of clothing) – is an instructional clip that explains (in Portuguese) how the dance, performed to the song “Francisco”, works. (The Novus Ordo Site Rome Reports has a video report on this, which includes many horrifically-immodest scenes from the above video.)
In addition to the video instructions, there will be sundry official rehearsals on-site in Rio to practice the filthy dance moves. Published on the official WYD site, there is a news item dated July 5, 2013, titled “Artistic Shows during Main Events will show a Young Church”, which advertizes the flash mob dance rehearsals:
It is not clear at this point whether participation in the unchaste and indecent flash mob dance is considered part of the “sacred functions” which WYD attendants must follow “with due devotion” in order to gain the plenary “indulgence” the Novus Ordo Vatican is offering to all who participate in the “Catholic” Woodstock (source).
The true purpose of clothing is to conceal the body, not to reveal it, something the Novus Ordo Church takes pride in forgetting. As the above video demonstrates, the New Church has made youngsters into people who act and dress like whores while believing themselves to be devout Catholics. No one is more vulnerable to committing sins of the flesh than the young (cf. Job 13:26), whether in thought, desire, or deed, and of course these sins are of such a nature as to be able to ensnare a soul for decades if the proper precautions are not maintained. They must therefore be guarded against with particular vigilance: “Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith: knowing that the same affliction befalls your brethren who are in the world” (1 Peter 5:8-9). Genuinely Catholic resources for modesty and purity, specifically for youngsters and people in courtship, can be found here.
Our Lady of Fatima said that more souls go to hell for sins of the flesh than for any other sin. The Vatican II Sect is clearly doing its part for making sure it stays that way.
It is thus not surprising that WYD “pilgrims” are being counseled “not to get caught up in packing your luggage and bring too much clothing”. Alas, clothing is one thing these World Youth Day participants typically don’t bring too much of.
The Vatican II Sect is a soul-destroying enterprise from the deepest pits of hell.
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Joe Namath’s ‘corny’ wish for old-school Jets fans
By Brian Costello
February 4, 2019 | 8:53am
Joe Namath Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
The signs Sam Darnold is ready to make jump Jets are counting on
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ATLANTA — It has been 50 years since Joe Namath led the Jets to their only Super Bowl title.
Namath believes 50 years has been a long enough wait for another championship.
“I want it,” Namath said here Saturday night. “We want it, the fans. There are teams that haven’t even been to one yet, let alone winning one. It’s a competitive game. It may sound corny. I’ve said it many times. Ownership can change, coaches can change, players change. But those fans that came over when they were the Titans and joined the Jets and are still there, the New Jersey fans joined forces. I’d like to see us win for them.”
Namath said he is optimistic about the direction the Jets are heading in.
“I can only hope,” Namath said. “We’re hoping that we’re going in the right direction. It’s pretty obvious we need some more players at different positions and how do we get those players? Collectively, they have to play together. I like the idea of Adam Gase being there even thought I didn’t dislike what coach [Todd] Bowles did.”
Namath liked what he saw from quarterback Sam Darnold in his rookie year.
“He impressed me at Southern Cal when I saw him there,” Namath said. “What was most impressive to me was how his coaches reacted to him and how his teammates reacted to him and how he carries himself. I’ve only talked to him a couple of times. He carries himself beautifully. He looks you in the eye when he talks to you. He’s enthusiastic. Josh [McCown] has nothing but great things to say about him and his work ethic. Everything’s positive there. Now you have to have the offensive line, you have to have the defense. Collectively, it’s a team effort.”
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Prior to admission, a minimum of 90 semester hours of credit from an approved college or university is required. Preference is given to students who will have completed an undergraduate degree and who are broadly educated in the sciences and humanities.
The following list of courses and credits indicates the minimal prerequisites that all applicants must take prior to admission to medical school. A minimum cumulative and BCPM (Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Math) grade point average of 3.0 or above is expected.
Chemistry (with lab): 16 total
Inorganic and qualitative: 8
Organic: 8*
Biology (with lab): 8
Physics (with lab): 8
Psychology/Sociology: 3
Language Arts (English, Speech, etc.): 6
College Algebra (or higher math or statistics): 3
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A Committee Letter is a letter authored by a pre-health committee or pre-health advisor and intended to represent your institution’s evaluation of you. A Committee Letter may or may not include additional letters written in support of your application
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The CASPer Test - Computer-Based Assessment for Sampling Personal Characteristics
All applicants to the Medical Doctor program, at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences are required to complete an online assessment (CASPer), to assist with our selection process for the 2019-2020 Admissions Cycle.
CASPer is an online test which assesses for non-cognitive skills and interpersonal characteristics that we believe are important for successful students and graduates of our program, and will complement the other tools that we use for applicant screening. In implementing CASPer, we are trying to further enhance fairness and objectivity in our selection process.
In order to take CASPer, you will be responsible for securing access to a computer with audio capabilities, a webcam, and a reliable internet connection on your selected test date. CASPer can be taken practically anywhere that you can satisfy the aforementioned requirements. No exceptions will be provided for applicants unable to take CASPer online due to being located at sites where internet is not dependable due to technical or political factors.
Please go to www.takeCASPer.com , and select 2019-2020 Admissions Cycle to sign up for the American Professional Health Sciences test (CSP10101 ) and reserve a test using your AMCAS Number and a piece of government-issued photo ID. You will be provided with a limited number of testing dates and times. Please note that these are the only testing dates available for your CASPer test. There will be no additional tests scheduled. Please use an email address that you check regularly; there may be updates to the test schedule.
Please direct any inquiries on the test to support@takecasper.com. Alternatively, you may use the chat bubble in the bottom right hand corner of your screen on the takecasper.com website. The CASPer test is comprised of 12 sections of video and written scenarios. Following each scenario, you will be required to answer a set of probing questions under a time contract. The test typically takes between 75-90 minutes to complete. Each response is graded by a different rater, giving a very robust and reliable view of personal and professional characteristics important to our program. No studying is required for CASPer, although you may want to familiarize yourself with the test structure at takeCASPer.com , and ensure you have a quiet environment to take the test.
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The Admissions Committee reviews applications and offers interviews on a rolling basis. Interviews are held on specific Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays in November, December and January, and the number of interview slots is limited. When all interview slots are filled, we will begin an interview waitlist. A timely submission of application materials, therefore, is important.
Applicants will be notified of the invitation to interview via email with instructions on how to return to the Secondary Application page to schedule an interview. It is expected that applicants will schedule an interview within two to three business days to assure a timely scheduling of interviews.
The interview team consists of three admissions committee members: a basic scientist, a physician and a medical student. One team member will be the lead interviewer; all members, however, will ask questions in turn. The interview is expected to last 30 to 45 minutes.
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Anime Challenge Day 7: My Anime Crush
Posted on December 19, 2014 by Merlin
Oh, now this one is absolutely no contest. In the whole of anime-dom, there has been exactly one character who has been my crush. While I have admired many women for their strength and beauty, there has been only one actual crush. This woman is beautiful, wily, and strong in a way besides brute power, though she does pack quite a punch, both literally and with her weather-based attacks. I speak of none other than:
Nami, from One Piece.
“Wanted,” indeed!
Seriously, it’s ridiculous how, every scene she’s in, a corner of me always squeals, “Naaaaammmiiiiii!”
(never thought I’d share common ground with Sanji)
In my defense, where Sanji is automatically in love with every attractive woman, my crush did not form overnight. And not only because she’s a cutie who becomes a hottie later on.
(though she is certainly that!)
There is some method to my madness.
For the first few episodes of One Piece, Nami was mostly a pretty face, a cutie we saw moving in the background, close but not quite touching the main action. Yet we could already see she was up to something, which turned out to be “stealing gold.” In that vein, she turned out to be a greedy, opportunistic schemer, perfectly willing to use her sex appeal to charm her targets, and all too happy to throw a perfect stranger, Luffy, under the bus when the Buggy pirates catch her stealing their captain’s map. Then she turns around, all cuteness, with an offer to team up, bribing Luffy with lunch. She’s a thief and a skilled navigator, but she hates pirates (until she gets to know Luffy), and proves adept at double-dealing and double-crossing.
The cutest double-crosser ever!
Not the most sterling of introductions, but there was a certain charm to this gold-digging, tangerine-loving, pirate-robbing, redheaded navigator. Particularly when we see her first real display of humanity. She risks her life, and burns her palms, saving Luffy’s life after her plans backfire with nearly-fatal results. That spoke to something good and selfless about Nami. While each of the Straw Hat Pirates could be summarized as selfish and greedy at times, but exactly the opposite when people’s lives are being trampled upon, Nami stands as a particular example of this.
So, I could certainly enjoy her as a character, but then they gave us something which demanded admiration for the young lady.
Nami’s life was spent almost exclusively in hardship. She was an orphan, her home destroyed by pirates when she was just a baby, too young to remember her birthplace. Fortunately, a spunky marine officer, a woman named Bellemere, adopted her and another girl, Nojiko, as her own daughters. They lived modest lives together for about a decade, raising tangerines in their yard and selling them. They were poor, but happy, until tragedy struck again. The fishman pirate Arlong came to their village, took over, demanded tribute, and killed anyone who could not pay or be paid for. Bellemere, being so poor, could never pay the tribute for her entire family, but she had just enough to save her daughters. Arlong gunned her down right in front of Nami and Nojiko.
If that trauma weren’t enough, Arlong noticed Nami’s skill, at her young age, for drawing sea charts. This caught his eye as potentially very useful for his ambition. If they were able to understand the seas better, they could turn the ocean itself into their weapon of conquest. So, before Bellemere’s body was even cold, Arlong took Nami from her home and forced her to work for him. The monster who murdered her mother was now Nami’s master. And this is how she lived, for eight years.
“I murdered your mother right in front of you, nearly killed the only father you ever had, enslaved you, and held the lives of everyone in your village over your head for eight years, but why aren’t you happier to see me?”
The simple fact that Nami was able to smile at all, to make any friends at all, after enduring that prolonged Hell spoke volumes to me of her strength. Not brutish power, though she could certainly deliver a mean punch, but the strength to endure day after day after day of unending agony. That is nothing short of amazing.
As Bellemere says, “Never give up. You must find the strength inside you to always move on. You must live through every moment. And if you can smile in the face of it all, that is the greatest strength.”
That is Nami’s strength.
People who can break stuff are a dime a dozen.
People who can endure the obliteration of their entire world are rare.
That is worthy of admiration.
Whatever her foibles, Nami is the kind of woman, the kind of person, who is most worth fighting for and fighting alongside.
I suppose that’s where my little crush really started, when I started to admire her. There are a hundred other reasons, of course, including everything about her mannerisms, her ambition to chart all of the seas, her cleverness, her compassion, her authoritative aura as she commands the crew in sailing the ship through storms and trouble, her unflinching ability to whack Luffy when his stupid/crazy/eccentric ways get them into trouble, her growing physical strength, her talents as a pickpocket, how she uses Sanji like a tool, her level head, her fiery nature, and more, more, more. Everything about Nami’s character is enchanting and/or compelling, even her flaws. But the single greatest reason has to be that strength to endure.
It’s no wonder she’s my anime crush. She’s as smart, strong, and capable as I want to be.
(not to mention really sexy and kicks ass!)
Oh, and a big shout out to her voice actors, both in the original Japanese and in the English dub by Funimation, where she is played brilliantly by Luci Christian. You rock, Luci!
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Although I Robin more than Nami, I agree that Nami is super awesome; not to mention that she’s a genius. The Straw Hats won’t be able to journey through the Grand Line without her. Although she’s a coward and prioritizes her own safety above everyone else, she would still fight and sacrifice her safety when her nakama are in grave danger. To be honest, I didn’t like her very much when I first read/watched the series, but when she started showing care & loyalty to Luffy and the the other Straw Hats, that was when I became attached to her character. Anyway, good post. Keep it up.
Thanks! I appreciate it! 🙂
Heh, and you gotta love the “cowards”of the crew! Nami and Usopp, whose healthy attachment to life helps keep everyone else from getting killed! LOL!
Indeed. Since they’re the “cowards”, they sense the gravity of danger more strongly than the others.
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O’Brien Coin Guide: GB & Ireland Bronze Pennies of Edward VII
Introduction: The GB & Ireland “Edward VII” pennies are an easy series to collect as there is only one major variety (the 1902 low tide) and that too is not exactly scarce. As with all of the earlier GB & Ireland bronzes, the highest grades command a significant premium and the coins in the lower…
February 4, 2018 in 20th C, bronze, Edward VII, GB & Ireland, O'Brien Coin Guide, penny.
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2016 Market Values Last year (2015) saw a vibrant market for Ploughman £1 notes with many new collectors entering an already crowded field. The one pound Ploughman is the most affordable of the Consolidated Banks series and is, therefore the most popular starting point for this most elusive of modern Irish banknotes . Increased demand…
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O’Brien Coin Price Guide: Irish Decimal Fiftypence
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1. Parikh, Amisha Mayur. Adverse Outcomes Associated with Venous Thromboembolism Among Patients with Kidney Disease, Obesity, and Cancer: A Population-based Perspective.
Degree: PhD, Epidemiology, 2012, Brown University
URL: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297543/
► Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third most common cardiovascular disorder in the United States, and the most preventable cause of death in hospitals. Despite recent… (more)
▼ Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the third most common cardiovascular disorder in the United States, and the most preventable cause of death in hospitals. Despite recent advances in our understanding of the natural history of VTE, considerable uncertainty remains on the prognosis following VTE for certain vulnerable patients with prevalent conditions that increase their risk of experiencing VTE-related complications, including patients with kidney disease, obesity, or cancer. This community-based investigation examined the differences in clinical characteristics, management practices, and the occurrence of VTE recurrences, major bleeding episodes, and all-cause mortality in patients with validated VTE in relation to their level of kidney dysfunction, weight status, or the presence of cancer. Data from the Worcester VTE Surveillance Study were used for this study, which included all metropolitan Worcester (MA) residents hospitalized with validated VTE during 1999, 2001, and 2003, with further follow-up for 3 years. All study data were extracted from hospital and outpatient medical records. Kidney dysfunction was categorized according to the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR; ml/min/1.73m2): eGFR < 30, 30-59, 60-89, or 90+. Weight status was determined by body mass index (BMI; kg/m2): underweight (< 18.5), normal weight (18.5-24.9), overweight (25.0-29.9), mildly obese (30.0-34.9), or moderately/severely obese (35+). The presence of cancer was defined as any cancer that was active, treated, or palliated in the previous three months. Severe reductions in eGFR were associated with an increased risk of long-term recurrent VTE, bleeding, and mortality in patients with VTE. Underweight patients with VTE experienced a higher risk of bleeding and mortality. Paradoxically, overweight and obese patients had prolonged survival compared to normal weight patients. Cancer patients with VTE were at an increased risk for VTE recurrence and death. Given the substantial burden of VTE and its associated complications, the results from this investigation suggest an increased awareness for improving the monitoring and management of VTE among high-risk populations. Designing targeted interventions for these vulnerable groups is critical in improving their overall prognosis following VTE. Advisors/Committee Members: Goldberg, Robert (Director), Spencer, Frederick (Reader), Linkletter, Crystal (Reader), Baylin, Ana (Reader).
Subjects/Keywords: venous thromboembolism
Parikh, A. M. (2012). Adverse Outcomes Associated with Venous Thromboembolism Among Patients with Kidney Disease, Obesity, and Cancer: A Population-based Perspective . (Doctoral Dissertation). Brown University. Retrieved from https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297543/
Parikh, Amisha Mayur. “Adverse Outcomes Associated with Venous Thromboembolism Among Patients with Kidney Disease, Obesity, and Cancer: A Population-based Perspective.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Brown University. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297543/.
Parikh, Amisha Mayur. “Adverse Outcomes Associated with Venous Thromboembolism Among Patients with Kidney Disease, Obesity, and Cancer: A Population-based Perspective.” 2012. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Parikh AM. Adverse Outcomes Associated with Venous Thromboembolism Among Patients with Kidney Disease, Obesity, and Cancer: A Population-based Perspective. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Brown University; 2012. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297543/.
Parikh AM. Adverse Outcomes Associated with Venous Thromboembolism Among Patients with Kidney Disease, Obesity, and Cancer: A Population-based Perspective. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Brown University; 2012. Available from: https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:297543/
2. Manjrekar, Kirti V. Influence of regional differences and hospital characteristics on health outcomes for inpatient hospitalization of venous thromboembolism patients in the United States.
Degree: MS, Pharmacy, 2006, University of Georgia
URL: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/manjrekar_kirti_v_200608_ms
► Venous thromboembolism (VTE) results in a tremendous health economic burden. Objectives: To determine if there is a significant association between: 1) hospital census region, teaching… (more)
▼ Venous thromboembolism (VTE) results in a tremendous health economic burden. Objectives: To determine if there is a significant association between: 1) hospital census region, teaching status, location, bedsize, and health outcomes for VTE, 2) mortality and race, gender, and payer status respectively. Methods: A retrospective database analysis was done using the Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample 2003 data of hospital discharges in the US. Multiple and logistic regression models were employed to study the possible associations. Results: Unlike previous analyses, this study found that Northeast has the highest mean charge per discharge, greater than that in the West, and hospital census region is not a significant predictor of mortality for VTE hospitalizations. Rural location, non-teaching status, small and medium size hospitals are associated with lesser total charge. Medicare and private insurance were positively associated with increased length of stay. Conclusion: Hospital characteristics influence health outcomes for VTE. Advisors/Committee Members: Jack E. Fincham.
Manjrekar, K. V. (2006). Influence of regional differences and hospital characteristics on health outcomes for inpatient hospitalization of venous thromboembolism patients in the United States . (Masters Thesis). University of Georgia. Retrieved from http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/manjrekar_kirti_v_200608_ms
Manjrekar, Kirti V. “Influence of regional differences and hospital characteristics on health outcomes for inpatient hospitalization of venous thromboembolism patients in the United States.” 2006. Masters Thesis, University of Georgia. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/manjrekar_kirti_v_200608_ms.
Manjrekar, Kirti V. “Influence of regional differences and hospital characteristics on health outcomes for inpatient hospitalization of venous thromboembolism patients in the United States.” 2006. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Manjrekar KV. Influence of regional differences and hospital characteristics on health outcomes for inpatient hospitalization of venous thromboembolism patients in the United States. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Georgia; 2006. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/manjrekar_kirti_v_200608_ms.
Manjrekar KV. Influence of regional differences and hospital characteristics on health outcomes for inpatient hospitalization of venous thromboembolism patients in the United States. [Masters Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2006. Available from: http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/manjrekar_kirti_v_200608_ms
3. Ishioka, Masamichi. Hyperprolactinemia during antipsychotics treatment increases the level of coagulation markers : 抗精神病薬投与中の高プロラクチン血症と凝固因子の関係; コウ セイシンビョウ ヤク トウヨ チュウ ノ コウ プロラクチン ケッショウ ト ギョウコ インシ ノ カンケイ.
Degree: 博士（医学）, 2018, Hirosaki University / 弘前大学
Objective: The strong association between psychiatric patients who receive antipsychotics and the incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is known. Although previous reports suggest that hyperprolactinemia… (more)
Objective: The strong association between psychiatric patients who receive antipsychotics and the incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is known. Although previous reports suggest that hyperprolactinemia often increases markers of activated coagulation, few studies have examined the direct relationship between the prolactin level elevated by antipsychotics and activated markers of activated coagulation. Method: The participants included 182 patients with schizophrenia (male =89, female =93) who received antipsychotic treatments for at least 3 months. Markers of VTE (D-dimer, fibrin/fibrinogen degradation products, and thrombin–antithrombin complex) and serum prolactin concentrations were measured. Results: Prolactin levels were significantly correlated with the logarithmic transformation of the D-dimer (r=0.320, P=0.002) and fibrin/fibrinogen degradation product levels (r=0.236, P=0.026) but not of the thrombin–antithrombin complex level (r=0.117, ns) among men. However, no correlations were found between the VTE markers and prolactin levels among women. These results were confirmed using multiple regression analyses that included demographic factors and antipsychotic dosages. Conclusion: The current study indicates that hyperprolactinemia is associated with an increase in markers of activated coagulation among men receiving antipsychotics. This finding clinically implies that monitoring and modulating prolactin levels among men are important to decrease the risk of VTE.
掲載誌Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 11, 2015, p.477-484DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S75176
Subjects/Keywords: prolactin; antipsychotics; venous thromboembolism
Ishioka, M. (2018). Hyperprolactinemia during antipsychotics treatment increases the level of coagulation markers : 抗精神病薬投与中の高プロラクチン血症と凝固因子の関係; コウ セイシンビョウ ヤク トウヨ チュウ ノ コウ プロラクチン ケッショウ ト ギョウコ インシ ノ カンケイ . (Thesis). Hirosaki University / 弘前大学. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10129/5668
Ishioka, Masamichi. “Hyperprolactinemia during antipsychotics treatment increases the level of coagulation markers : 抗精神病薬投与中の高プロラクチン血症と凝固因子の関係; コウ セイシンビョウ ヤク トウヨ チュウ ノ コウ プロラクチン ケッショウ ト ギョウコ インシ ノ カンケイ.” 2018. Thesis, Hirosaki University / 弘前大学. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10129/5668.
Ishioka, Masamichi. “Hyperprolactinemia during antipsychotics treatment increases the level of coagulation markers : 抗精神病薬投与中の高プロラクチン血症と凝固因子の関係; コウ セイシンビョウ ヤク トウヨ チュウ ノ コウ プロラクチン ケッショウ ト ギョウコ インシ ノ カンケイ.” 2018. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Ishioka M. Hyperprolactinemia during antipsychotics treatment increases the level of coagulation markers : 抗精神病薬投与中の高プロラクチン血症と凝固因子の関係; コウ セイシンビョウ ヤク トウヨ チュウ ノ コウ プロラクチン ケッショウ ト ギョウコ インシ ノ カンケイ. [Internet] [Thesis]. Hirosaki University / 弘前大学; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10129/5668.
Ishioka M. Hyperprolactinemia during antipsychotics treatment increases the level of coagulation markers : 抗精神病薬投与中の高プロラクチン血症と凝固因子の関係; コウ セイシンビョウ ヤク トウヨ チュウ ノ コウ プロラクチン ケッショウ ト ギョウコ インシ ノ カンケイ. [Thesis]. Hirosaki University / 弘前大学; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10129/5668
4. Alotaibi, Ghazi S. The Epidemiology of Venous Thromboembolism in Alberta, Canada: A Population Based Cohort Study.
Degree: PhD, Department of Medicine, 2016, University of Alberta
URL: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/c1n79h441d
► Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprises both deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). It is a common acute cardiovascular event associated with increased long-term… (more)
▼ Background: Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprises both deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). It is a common acute cardiovascular event associated with increased long-term morbidity, disability, all-cause mortality, and high rates of recurrence. Major advances in diagnosis, prophylaxis, and treatment over the past 3-decades have likely changed its clinical epidemiology. However, there are little published data describing contemporary, population-based, trends in VTE epidemiology. Objectives: To examine recent trends in the epidemiology of clinically recognized VTE and assess the disease burden in the Canadian province of Alberta. Methods: Initially, we developed and validated a VTE case identifying algorithm using a combination of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) diagnostic codes and a VTE related imaging procedure codes against patient charts. Then, two retrospective cohort studies based on linkage of administrative health databases in Alberta, Canada, provided estimates of VTE incidence and case fatality over the past decade. Also, we investigated the effect of cancer on overall, short- and long-term mortality in a cohort of consecutive incident PE patients. Poisson regression and Cox’s proportional hazard models were used in the multivariate analysis. Results: 1361 patients were used for the validation of the case-definition. The sensitivity and specificity of our algorithm for identifying patients with VTE using administrative data is 75% (95% CI: 69.18-80.22) and 93.78% (92.19-95.13), respectively. Subsequently, we identified 31,656 cases of acute symptomatic VTE between April 1, 2002, and March 31, 2012. The age and sex adjusted incidence rate of VTE was 1.38 (95% CI: 1.37, 1.40) per 1000 person-years. For pulmonary embolism it was 0.38 (95% CI: 0.36, 0.40) per 1000 person-years and for deep vein thrombosis it was 1.0 (95% CI: 0.99, 1.1) per 1000 person-years. The adjusted model showed no significant change in the incidence of VTE during the study period. The 30-day case fatality rate of VTE was 2.0% (95% CI: 1.89, 2.21) and was almost doubled in patients with PE 3.9% (95% CI: 3.50-4.33). The 1-year case fatality was 9.2% (95% CI: 8.88-9.52) for VTE and 12.9% (95% CI: 12.2-13.6) for patients with PE. In patients with PE, The 1-year and 5-year survival probabilities were 61% (95% CI: 57-64) and 39% (95% CI: 36-43) in cancer-associated PE patients, 93% (95% CI: 92-94) and 80% (95% CI: 78-81) in provoked PE patients, and 94% (95% CI: 93-95) and 85% (95% CI: 83-87) in unprovoked PE patients, respectively. Compared to patients with unprovoked PE events both short-term and long-term survival in patients with cancer-associated PE have significantly higher observed risk of all-cause mortality in all age groups, P-value <0.001. In contrast, patients with provoked events had similar short- and long-term hazard of death. Conclusion: Venous thromboembolism is a disease with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite advances in identification, prophylaxis, and treatment in the last…
Subjects/Keywords: Epidemiology; Venous Thromboembolism; Health Outcome
Alotaibi, G. S. (2016). The Epidemiology of Venous Thromboembolism in Alberta, Canada: A Population Based Cohort Study. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Alberta. Retrieved from https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/c1n79h441d
Alotaibi, Ghazi S. “The Epidemiology of Venous Thromboembolism in Alberta, Canada: A Population Based Cohort Study.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Alberta. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/c1n79h441d.
Alotaibi, Ghazi S. “The Epidemiology of Venous Thromboembolism in Alberta, Canada: A Population Based Cohort Study.” 2016. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Alotaibi GS. The Epidemiology of Venous Thromboembolism in Alberta, Canada: A Population Based Cohort Study. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Alberta; 2016. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/c1n79h441d.
Alotaibi GS. The Epidemiology of Venous Thromboembolism in Alberta, Canada: A Population Based Cohort Study. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Alberta; 2016. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/c1n79h441d
5. Suchon, Pierre. Identification de variants génétiques associés à la thrombose veineuse : Identification of genetic variants associated with venous thrombosis.
Degree: Docteur es, Pathologie humaine. Pathologie vasculaire et nutrition, 2017, Aix Marseille Université
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0658
La maladie thromboembolique veineuse (MTEV) résulte de l’interaction entre des facteurs environnementaux et génétiques. Cinq anomalies constitutionnelles constituent le bilan de thrombophilie (BT) : les… (more)
La maladie thromboembolique veineuse (MTEV) résulte de l’interaction entre des facteurs environnementaux et génétiques. Cinq anomalies constitutionnelles constituent le bilan de thrombophilie (BT) : les déficits en AT, PC et PS, le facteur V Leiden et la mutation de la prothrombine. Seule la moitié des déficits « présumés » en PS trouvent une explication moléculaire. Dans le premier article, seuls les patients présentant une mutation délétère du gène de la PS (PROS1) étaient à risque de MTEV. Seuls des taux <30%, permettaient de dépister les mutations délétères. La mutation Heerlen située sur PROS1 est réputée neutre. Dans le second article, la mutation Heerlen était associée à un risque de MTEV de 6,57. De récentes études ont identifié une trentaine de polymorphismes associés à la MTEV. Cependant, leur impact dans les familles présentant un facteur biologique de risque est méconnu. De même, l’impact de facteurs environnementaux tels que l’obésité et le tabagisme est mal évalué dans ces familles. Dans le troisième article, la prise en compte de 5 facteurs de risque fréquents à effet faible (obésité, tabac, groupe sanguin et deux polymorphismes situés sur F11 et FGG) en complément du dépistage de l’anomalie familiale permettait de mieux caractériser le risque individuel. Nous avons testé la même stratégie dans une population spécifique de femmes sous contraceptifs oraux combinés (4ème article). Trois facteurs de risque fréquents (groupe sanguin, obésité et un polymorphisme de F11) étaient associés à un OR de 13 lorsqu’ils étaient combinés. Au total, la prise en compte de facteurs de risque fréquents à effet faible, permettait une meilleure évaluation du risque individuel.
Venous thromboembolism (VT) results from the interaction between environmental and genetic factors. Five inherited hemostatic defects are part of the thrombophilia screening (TS): AT, PC and PS deficiencies, factor V Leiden and prothrombin mutation. A molecular defect is identified in only half of assumed PS deficiencies. In the first article, only detrimental mutations (DM) located on PROS1 (PS gene) increased VT risk. Only free PS levels below 30% enabled the identification of DM. PS Heerlen mutation located within PROS1 has been considered neutral for a long time. In the second article, the association between PS Heerlen and VT has been tested in a sample of 4173 patients with VT history and 5970 healthy individuals. PS Heerlen was associated with a 6.57 increased risk of VT. Recent genome wide association studies identified nearly 30 polymorphisms associated with VT. However, the impact of such polymorphisms in families with known defects is uncertain. We therefore tested in a third article the association between 11 selected polymorphisms, obesity, smoking and VT in 651 families with known thrombophilia. Considering 5 common risk factors (obesity, smoking, ABO blood group, two polymorphisms located on FGG and F11) together with the TS resulted in a better assessment of VT risk in individuals from families with thrombophilia. We then applied…
Advisors/Committee Members: Morange, Pierre-Emmanuel (thesis director), Tregouet, David-Alexandre (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Maladie thromboembolique veineuse; Venous thromboembolism
Suchon, P. (2017). Identification de variants génétiques associés à la thrombose veineuse : Identification of genetic variants associated with venous thrombosis . (Doctoral Dissertation). Aix Marseille Université. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0658
Suchon, Pierre. “Identification de variants génétiques associés à la thrombose veineuse : Identification of genetic variants associated with venous thrombosis.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Aix Marseille Université. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0658.
Suchon, Pierre. “Identification de variants génétiques associés à la thrombose veineuse : Identification of genetic variants associated with venous thrombosis.” 2017. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Suchon P. Identification de variants génétiques associés à la thrombose veineuse : Identification of genetic variants associated with venous thrombosis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Aix Marseille Université 2017. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0658.
Suchon P. Identification de variants génétiques associés à la thrombose veineuse : Identification of genetic variants associated with venous thrombosis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Aix Marseille Université 2017. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0658
6. Takach Lapner, Sarah. Optimizing the D-dimer Threshold Used to Exclude Venous Thromboembolism.
Degree: MSc, 2014, McMaster University
Background: A D-dimer threshold <500ug/L has high negative predictive value (NPV) for venous thromboembolism (VTE), but is non-specific. Two strategies increase the specificity and utility… (more)
Background: A D-dimer threshold <500ug/L has high negative predictive value (NPV) for venous thromboembolism (VTE), but is non-specific. Two strategies increase the specificity and utility (defined as the proportion of patients with a negative test) of D-dimer testing: 1) using a higher D-dimer threshold with increasing age (IAIT Strategy); and 2) using a high threshold in low clinical pretest probability (CPTP) patients and the standard threshold in moderate CPTP patients (CPTP Strategy). It is unknown whether the gain in specificity of the IAIT Strategy is simply due to using a higher threshold in some patients and whether the CPTP Strategy has better diagnostic accuracy than the IAIT Strategy. Methods: In a retrospective analysis of 1649 outpatients with suspected VTE, I compared the diagnostic accuracy of the IAIT Strategy to 1) its opposite: using a higher D-dimer threshold with decreasing age (DAIT strategy); 2) using a higher D-dimer threshold in all patients (Median Age Strategy); and 3) the CPTP Strategy. Results: The NPV of both the IAIT and DAIT Strategies was 99.6% and the NPV of the Median Age Strategy was 99.7%. The utility was almost identical in the IAIT and DAIT Strategies (50.9% vs. 50.6%) and greater in the Median Age Strategy (53.9%, p<0.001). The NPV of the CPTP and IAIT Strategies were 99.6% and 99.7%, respectively. The utility was higher in the CPTP Strategy than the IAIT Strategy (56.1% vs. 50.9%, p<0.001). Conclusions: The NPV and utility of using a higher D-dimer threshold in older patients (IAIT Strategy) is the same as using a higher D-dimer threshold in younger patients. The CPTP Strategy had the greatest utility while maintaining a high NPV and therefore appeared to be the optimal strategy of D-dimer interpretation.
Master of Health Sciences (MSc)
Advisors/Committee Members: Kearon, Clive, Clinical Health Sciences (Health Research Methodology).
Subjects/Keywords: Venous thromboembolism; Diagnosis; D-dimer
Takach Lapner, S. (2014). Optimizing the D-dimer Threshold Used to Exclude Venous Thromboembolism . (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16455
Takach Lapner, Sarah. “Optimizing the D-dimer Threshold Used to Exclude Venous Thromboembolism.” 2014. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16455.
Takach Lapner, Sarah. “Optimizing the D-dimer Threshold Used to Exclude Venous Thromboembolism.” 2014. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Takach Lapner S. Optimizing the D-dimer Threshold Used to Exclude Venous Thromboembolism. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2014. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16455.
Takach Lapner S. Optimizing the D-dimer Threshold Used to Exclude Venous Thromboembolism. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/16455
7. Connolly, Lauren. Decreasing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolisms Through Promoting Sequential Compression Device Utilization and Compliance.
Degree: MSN, 2018, University of San Francisco
URL: https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/750
► Venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) contribute considerably to hospitalization-related deaths in the United States. In October 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services stopped reimbursing… (more)
▼ Venous thromboembolisms (VTEs) contribute considerably to hospitalization-related deaths in the United States. In October 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services stopped reimbursing hospitals for the cost of treating hospital-acquired VTEs. This motivates hospital leaders to emphasize VTE prophylaxis. One metropolitan, Level 1 Trauma hospital sought to decrease VTE incidence by ensuring every bed in the hospital has a sequential compression device (SCD) machine. An assessment of the focus unit revealed this one-to-one bed to machine ratio was not maintained, nursing compliance and documentation related to SCD utilization was low, and SCD machines were not consistently monitored. This project sought to determine the root cause for missing SCD machines, increase SCD utilization through ensuring SCD machine accessibility, and increase nursing documentation rates concerning SCD utilization. SCD audits were conducted throughout the project to analyze SCD location and utilization. Nursing surveys were disseminated to understand baseline SCD usage and workflow. A multiple-component intervention was devised, including: educational nursing in-services on a VTE case study, posting educational VTE and broken SCD machine flyers, and rolling out a SCD monitoring tool. Post-surveys with the nursing staff were conducted to evaluate the intervention in addition to ongoing SCD audits.Though these results were found to be statistically insignificant, SCD audits (pre-intervention n=99, post-intervention n=68) revealed a 9% increase in SCDs that were found to be on the patient. Additionally, there was an 8% decrease in the number of SCDs that were most recently charted as observed on the patient more than 24 hours prior. The efforts of this project demonstrate the potential efficacy of increased SCD machine understanding and accountability on prevention of hospital-acquired VTEs.
Subjects/Keywords: venous thromboembolism; sequential compression device; Nursing
Connolly, L. (2018). Decreasing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolisms Through Promoting Sequential Compression Device Utilization and Compliance . (Thesis). University of San Francisco. Retrieved from https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/750
Connolly, Lauren. “Decreasing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolisms Through Promoting Sequential Compression Device Utilization and Compliance.” 2018. Thesis, University of San Francisco. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/750.
Connolly, Lauren. “Decreasing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolisms Through Promoting Sequential Compression Device Utilization and Compliance.” 2018. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Connolly L. Decreasing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolisms Through Promoting Sequential Compression Device Utilization and Compliance. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of San Francisco; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/750.
Connolly L. Decreasing Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolisms Through Promoting Sequential Compression Device Utilization and Compliance. [Thesis]. University of San Francisco; 2018. Available from: https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/750
8. Mirkazemi, C. Thromboprophylaxis following hip and knee arthroplasty.
Degree: 2013, University of Tasmania
URL: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17554/1/Whole-Mirkazemi-thesis.pdf
► Hip and knee arthroplasty are increasingly common surgical procedures in Australia, with more than 85,000 expected to be performed this year. Compared to the general… (more)
▼ Hip and knee arthroplasty are increasingly common surgical procedures in Australia, with more than 85,000 expected to be performed this year. Compared to the general public, people who undergo a hip or knee arthroplasty are at an increased risk of developing blood clots (also known as a venous thromboemboli or VTE) as both procedures activate all three aspects of Virchow’s risk triad during the pre-, peri- and postoperative period. Importantly, VTE are considered one of the most common causes of preventable death in Australian hospitals. Whilst there are mechanical and pharmacological measures that can be employed to prevent VTE (known collectively as thromboprophylaxis), and many national and international bodies have released thromboprophylaxis guidelines over the years, previous studies have reported consistent underutilisation of thromboprophylaxis both in Australia and overseas. The overarching objective of this thesis was to examine thromboprophylaxis prescribing patterns in Australia, and the factors that influence them. To achieve this aim, a number of complementary studies were conducted, including both qualitative and quantitative work. Retrospective reviews were conducted at six hospitals across three states to explore prescribing patterns; the results indicated that while anticoagulant thromboprophylaxis is routinely used in hospital, its continuation at discharge is not habitual – despite recommendations by contemporary guidelines to extend therapy usually beyond the inpatient period. Interestingly, prescribing patterns were generally found to be more aligned with recent contemporary recommendations than recommendations existent at the time of prescribing, indicating practice preceded guidelines. A survey exploring hospital protocols and local prescribing practices identified that only 50% of the 143 Australian hospitals surveyed had thromboprophylaxis protocols and that their alignment with published literature varied considerably. Surprisingly, private hospitals tended to base their guidelines on the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Guideline, whereas public hospitals were more likely to favour individual or collective surgeon preferences. Where they existed, adherence to hospital protocols was apparently high (86%), and predictably trended to increase in hospitals with adherence strategies in place (91% vs. 79%). Two online surveys were conducted with orthopaedic surgeons practising in Australia. Whilst the first survey was limited by its small number of respondents (25), it identified that individual prescribing preferences vary significantly, with many surgeons perceiving guideline recommendations (including those of the NHMRC Guideline) as inappropriate. Although few respondents believed that pharmacological prophylaxis prevents fatal pulmonary emboli, and many responded that VTE risk is low following arthroplasty, all participants routinely prescribed pharmacological prophylaxis postoperatively. In addition to bleeding concerns and a perceived low VTE risk, the third…
Subjects/Keywords: Thromboprophylaxis; Venous Thromboembolism; Blood Clots; Arthroplasty
Mirkazemi, C. (2013). Thromboprophylaxis following hip and knee arthroplasty . (Thesis). University of Tasmania. Retrieved from https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17554/1/Whole-Mirkazemi-thesis.pdf
Mirkazemi, C. “Thromboprophylaxis following hip and knee arthroplasty.” 2013. Thesis, University of Tasmania. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17554/1/Whole-Mirkazemi-thesis.pdf.
Mirkazemi, C. “Thromboprophylaxis following hip and knee arthroplasty.” 2013. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Mirkazemi C. Thromboprophylaxis following hip and knee arthroplasty. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Tasmania; 2013. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17554/1/Whole-Mirkazemi-thesis.pdf.
Mirkazemi C. Thromboprophylaxis following hip and knee arthroplasty. [Thesis]. University of Tasmania; 2013. Available from: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/17554/1/Whole-Mirkazemi-thesis.pdf
University of Illinois – Chicago
9. Bathija, Sacheeta. Patient Outcomes with Warfarin Therapy after Hip and Knee Replacement: Comparison of Two Models of Care.
Degree: 2013, University of Illinois – Chicago
► The first objective of the study was to examine the association between race of the patients and their referral to anticoagulation clinic compared to orthopedic… (more)
▼ The first objective of the study was to examine the association between race of the patients and their referral to anticoagulation clinic compared to orthopedic clinic for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis (VTE) post-surgery. The second objective was to compare time in therapeutic range (TTR) in patients receiving warfarin therapy between anticoagulation clinic and orthopedic clinic. We conducted a retrospective, observational study of patients who underwent hip or knee replacement surgery at University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System (UIHHSS) between the years 2000 and 2009 and were referred to either anticoagulation clinic or orthopedic clinic at UIHHSS for post-surgical prophylaxis. There were 294 patients referred to anticoagulation clinic and 573 to orthopedic clinic. The majority of the study cohort patients were female (68.3%) and average age of the cohort was 59 years. Compared to Caucasians, African Americans (ORadj=1.543, 95% CI =0.929-2.563) and Hispanics (ORadj=4.244, 95% CI =2.378-7.574) were more likely to be referred to anticoagulation clinic whereas others (ORadj=0.164, 95% CI =0.050-0.545) were less likely to be referred to anticoagulation clinic adjusting for the covariates. The adjusted mean TTR was 8.96% higher after matching on propensity scores, 8.79% higher after matching covariates, 9.02% higher after applying inverse probability weighting and 9.08% higher after applying inverse probability weighting combined with regression adjustment for patients receiving warfarin prophylaxis at anticoagulation clinic. For the overall group, the adjusted mean TTR was 6.60% higher after applying inverse probability weighting and 7.1% higher after applying inverse probability weighting combined with regression adjustment for those referred to anticoagulation clinic compared to those referred to orthopedic clinic. Our study adds to the existing body of literature on anticoagulation models of care for patients receiving warfarin therapy. We found that race adjusting for covariates influenced the patient referral pattern to outpatient clinics for receiving post surgery prophylaxis. In addition, we found that patients in anticoagulation clinic have a higher TTR for receiving a short term VTE prophylaxis compared to routine model of care. Future research is needed to understand the impact of anticoagulation care in a larger diverse sample of patients receiving warfarin therapy. Advisors/Committee Members: Walton, Surrey M (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: warfarin; anticoagulation; propensity scores; venous thromboembolism
Bathija, S. (2013). Patient Outcomes with Warfarin Therapy after Hip and Knee Replacement: Comparison of Two Models of Care . (Thesis). University of Illinois – Chicago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10027/10042
Bathija, Sacheeta. “Patient Outcomes with Warfarin Therapy after Hip and Knee Replacement: Comparison of Two Models of Care.” 2013. Thesis, University of Illinois – Chicago. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10027/10042.
Bathija, Sacheeta. “Patient Outcomes with Warfarin Therapy after Hip and Knee Replacement: Comparison of Two Models of Care.” 2013. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Bathija S. Patient Outcomes with Warfarin Therapy after Hip and Knee Replacement: Comparison of Two Models of Care. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Illinois – Chicago; 2013. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10027/10042.
Bathija S. Patient Outcomes with Warfarin Therapy after Hip and Knee Replacement: Comparison of Two Models of Care. [Thesis]. University of Illinois – Chicago; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10027/10042
10. Matsunaga, Hidetoshi. Prevalence and Countermeasures for Venous Thromboembolic Diseases Associated With Spinal Surgery A Follow-up Study of an Institutional Protocol in 209 Patients.
Degree: 博士(医学), 2017, Mie University / 三重大学
Study Design. A prospective study of 209 patients undergoing spinal surgery. Objective. To determine the incidence of venous thromboembolic diseases, including deep venous thrombosis (DVT)… (more)
Study Design. A prospective study of 209 patients undergoing spinal surgery. Objective. To determine the incidence of venous thromboembolic diseases, including deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), and to evaluate the effectiveness of an institutional protocol for venous thromboembolic diseases during the spinal surgery perioperative period. Summary of Background Data. Although patients undergoing spinal surgery are at risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), there are no universally accepted guidelines for VTE prophylaxis. Methods. Between December 2006 and January 2011, 209 patients undergoing spinal surgery (121 males, 88 females; average age: 64 yr), who also had ultrasonographic assessments of both legs before and after surgery, were prospectively assessed. A pneumatic sequential compression device and standard compression stockings were used for primary VTE prophylaxis. In Mie University Hospital protocol, pharmacological agents were not used for VTE prophylaxis after surgery. However, when a distal type DVT was found preoperatively, an anticoagulant medication was administered until 6 hours prior to surgery. After detection of DVTs, weekly ultrasonography assessed the DVT. Results. Twenty-three patients (11.0%) showed VTE in the spinal surgery perioperative period. Nine patients (4.3%) had VTE (PE with proximal DVT, 1 [0.5%]; distal DVT, 8 [3.8%]) before surgery. In the one case of asymptomatic PE with proximal DVT, an inferior vena cava filter was placed before surgery. Fourteen patients (6.7%) developed new-onset VTE (PE with proximal DVT, 2 [1.0%]; distal DVT, 12 [5.9%]) after spinal surgery. New-onset PE with proximal DVT occurred in 2 patients after surgery. Follow-up ultrasonographic assessment showed that the DVT disappeared completely in 85% (17/20) of patients with a distal type DVT during the perioperative period. Conclusion. DVT assessment using ultrasonography is important for proper management of VTE during the perioperative period of spinal surgery, especially for high-risk patients, such as those with advanced age or neurological deficit. The institutional protocol for VTE using pneumatic sequential compression device and compression stockings is effective, although the administration of chemoprophylaxis should be considered for high-risk patients, such as those with spinal tumors and spinal trauma.
本文 / Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Spine Surgery andMedical Engineering, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine
Subjects/Keywords: venous thromboembolism; deep venous thrombosis; pulmonary embolism; spinal surgery
Matsunaga, H. (2017). Prevalence and Countermeasures for Venous Thromboembolic Diseases Associated With Spinal Surgery A Follow-up Study of an Institutional Protocol in 209 Patients . (Thesis). Mie University / 三重大学. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10076/14731
Matsunaga, Hidetoshi. “Prevalence and Countermeasures for Venous Thromboembolic Diseases Associated With Spinal Surgery A Follow-up Study of an Institutional Protocol in 209 Patients.” 2017. Thesis, Mie University / 三重大学. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10076/14731.
Matsunaga, Hidetoshi. “Prevalence and Countermeasures for Venous Thromboembolic Diseases Associated With Spinal Surgery A Follow-up Study of an Institutional Protocol in 209 Patients.” 2017. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Matsunaga H. Prevalence and Countermeasures for Venous Thromboembolic Diseases Associated With Spinal Surgery A Follow-up Study of an Institutional Protocol in 209 Patients. [Internet] [Thesis]. Mie University / 三重大学; 2017. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10076/14731.
Matsunaga H. Prevalence and Countermeasures for Venous Thromboembolic Diseases Associated With Spinal Surgery A Follow-up Study of an Institutional Protocol in 209 Patients. [Thesis]. Mie University / 三重大学; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10076/14731
11. Nossair, Fadi. Promising Biomarkers for the Prediction of Catheter-related Venous Thromboembolism in Children: An emphasis on prevention and personalized care.
Degree: Biomedical and Translational Science, 2018, University of California – Irvine
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xr3z2zj
► Background: Pediatric hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (HA-VTE) has increased over the past ten years, with central venous catheters (CVC) being the strongest risk factor. Current tools… (more)
▼ Background: Pediatric hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (HA-VTE) has increased over the past ten years, with central venous catheters (CVC) being the strongest risk factor. Current tools are not sufficient to predict VTE risk at this time. The utility of biomarkers in predicting CVC-related VTE has been minimally explored.Aims: Determine the utility of microparticles (MPs), factor VIII activity (FVIII) and thrombin generation (TG) in prospectively predicting VTE occurrence in hospitalized children with CVCs.Methods: In this cohort pilot study, 42 hospitalized acutely ill children needing CVC placement (1 month to 21 years) and 42 age-matched healthy controls were enrolled. Venous samples were collected prior to or within 24 hours of CVC placement and processed using a strict protocol to minimize pre-analytical variables. MPs were measured using factor Xa initiated clot-based assay. FVIII was measured using a one-stage clot-based assay. TG was measured using the calibrated automated thrombogram. Results: There were three CVC-related VTE events (7%) in our cohort. Xa clotting time (XaCT) ratio was significantly lower, while FVIII, peak thrombin (peak), estimated thrombin potential (ETP) and velocity index (VI) were significantly higher in patients with CVC-related VTE, as compared to healthy controls and patients without CVC-related VTE. Sensitivity/specificity analysis revealed optimal cutoff values for XaCT ratio (0.75), FVIII (370), ETP (1680), Peak (315) and VI (130), with AUC values of all biomarker ROC curves >0.9.Conclusion: MPs, FVIII and TG can potentially predict pediatric CVC-related VTE in a prospective fashion. Further studies are needed to explore if stratification according to VTE risk will guide preventative efforts in this patient population.
Subjects/Keywords: Medicine; Biomarkers; Central venous catheter; Children; Personalized medicine; Prediction; Venous thromboembolism
Nossair, F. (2018). Promising Biomarkers for the Prediction of Catheter-related Venous Thromboembolism in Children: An emphasis on prevention and personalized care . (Thesis). University of California – Irvine. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xr3z2zj
Nossair, Fadi. “Promising Biomarkers for the Prediction of Catheter-related Venous Thromboembolism in Children: An emphasis on prevention and personalized care.” 2018. Thesis, University of California – Irvine. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xr3z2zj.
Nossair, Fadi. “Promising Biomarkers for the Prediction of Catheter-related Venous Thromboembolism in Children: An emphasis on prevention and personalized care.” 2018. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Nossair F. Promising Biomarkers for the Prediction of Catheter-related Venous Thromboembolism in Children: An emphasis on prevention and personalized care. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xr3z2zj.
Nossair F. Promising Biomarkers for the Prediction of Catheter-related Venous Thromboembolism in Children: An emphasis on prevention and personalized care. [Thesis]. University of California – Irvine; 2018. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6xr3z2zj
12. Ho, Wai Khoon. The incidence of venous thromboembolism : a prospective, community-based study.
Degree: M.Med.Sc., 2008, University of Western Australia
URL: http://repository.uwa.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=12726&local_base=GEN01-INS01
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a common and preventable cause of morbidity among individuals and hospital in-patient… (more)
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a common and preventable cause of morbidity among individuals and hospital in-patient mortality. Further, it imposes a substantial burden upon the community and its health care system and economy. Studies performed in Western societies suggest that the annual incidence of DVT is about 0.8 to 1.2 per 1,000, PE about 0.3 to 0.6 per 1,000, and VTE about 1.0 to 1.8 per 1,000. However, it is not known if these estimates can be generalised to the Australian population because of differences in ethnic composition and other risk factors for VTE among the different populations. In this thesis, I undertook a prospective, community-based cohort study over a 13-month period in 2003 – 2004 to determine the incidence and crude event rate of symptomatic, objectively verified VTE in north-east metropolitan Perth. The study population was broadly representative of the national Australian population in terms of age, sex and ethnic distribution. Cases were identified through multiple overlapping sources. The incidence of DVT, PE and VTE in the community were 0.52 (95% confidence interval, CI: 0.41 – 0.63), 0.31 (95% CI: 0.22 – 0.40) and 0.83 (95% CI: 0.69 – 0.97) per 1000 per year, respectively. The annual incidence of DVT, adjusted to the World Standard population, was 0.35 (95% CI: 0.26 – 0.44) per 1000, PE 0.21 (95% CI: 0.14 – 0.28) per 1000 and VTE 0.57 (95% CI: 0.47 – 0.67) per 1000. The crude event rate for VTE was 0.85 (95% CI: 0.71 – 0.99) per 1000 per year. These findings suggest that the incidence of DVT, PE and VTE are lower than in other Western societies studied. Possible reasons include a lower prevalence of exposure to causal risk factors (genetic and environmental) and incomplete case ascertainment. Knowledge of the local incidence and event rate allows health planners to allocate appropriate resources and evaluate cost-effective preventive measures.
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a common and preventable cause of morbidity among individuals and hospital in-patient mortality. Further, it imposes a substantial burden upon the community and its health care system and economy. Studies performed in Western societies suggest that the annual incidence of DVT is about 0.8 to 1.2 per 1,000, PE about 0.3 to 0.6 per 1,000, and VTE about 1.0 to 1.8 per 1,000. However, it is not known if these estimates can be generalised to the Australian population because of differences in ethnic composition and other risk factors for VTE among the different populations. In this thesis, I undertook a prospective, community-based cohort study over a 13-month period in 2003 – 2004 to determine the incidence and crude event rate of symptomatic, objectively verified VTE in north-east metropolitan Perth. The study population was broadly representative of the national Australian population in terms of age, sex and ethnic distribution. Cases were identified through multiple…
Subjects/Keywords: Pulmonary embolism; Thromboembolism; Thrombophlebitis; Community incidence; North-east metropolitan Perth; Venous thromboembolism; Prospective study
Ho, W. K. (2008). The incidence of venous thromboembolism : a prospective, community-based study . (Masters Thesis). University of Western Australia. Retrieved from http://repository.uwa.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=12726&local_base=GEN01-INS01
Ho, Wai Khoon. “The incidence of venous thromboembolism : a prospective, community-based study.” 2008. Masters Thesis, University of Western Australia. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://repository.uwa.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=12726&local_base=GEN01-INS01.
Ho, Wai Khoon. “The incidence of venous thromboembolism : a prospective, community-based study.” 2008. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Ho WK. The incidence of venous thromboembolism : a prospective, community-based study. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Western Australia; 2008. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://repository.uwa.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=12726&local_base=GEN01-INS01.
Ho WK. The incidence of venous thromboembolism : a prospective, community-based study. [Masters Thesis]. University of Western Australia; 2008. Available from: http://repository.uwa.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=12726&local_base=GEN01-INS01
13. Haut, Elliott R. Preventable Harm from Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) - A New Metric for Quality of Care.
Degree: 2014, Johns Hopkins University
URL: http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36954
► Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprised of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is an underappreciated public health concern. According to the United States’ Surgeon’s… (more)
▼ Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprised of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is an underappreciated public health concern. According to the United States’ Surgeon’s General “Call to Action to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism,” VTE affects between 350,000-600,000 Americans each year, causing over 100,000 deaths annually. Even with overwhelming evidence of benefit, many hospitalized patients do not receive adequate VTE prophylaxis. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has called VTE prevention the number one strategy to improve patient safety in hospitals. As a consequence, many governmental agencies, accrediting bodies, and patient safety organizations have made improving VTE prophylaxis a priority and VTE is suggested as an ideal target for public reporting. However, VTE rates alone are not reliable as quality indicators. We suggest a more palatable and reliable measure of preventable harm from VTE. Chapter 1 shows how publicly reported VTE process and outcome measures fail to correlate and are not valid to benchmark hospitals. Chapter 2 explains how surveillance bias limits the role of VTE outcome reporting and offers a better solution- linking VTE process and outcome data into a single measure to define preventable harm. Chapter 3 summarizes published approaches to improve VTE prophylaxis for hospitalized patients. Chapter 4 offers perspectives on lessons learned while implementing a mandatory computerized clinical decision support tool to improve VTE prevention at our academic medical center. Chapters 5 and report data showing how our tool decreased preventable harm from VTE (using our definition) in adult trauma and medicine patients. Chapter 7 presents a real-world example of the feasibility of linking VTE prevention process and outcome measures. The work of this dissertation has already influenced national policy. By inclusion in The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services financial incentives programs for the “meaningful use” of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to improve patient care. VTE-6 is defined as patients diagnosed with confirmed VTE who did not receive VTE prophylaxis" This definition followed our suggestion that “performance measures could link a process of care with adverse outcomes when defining incidences of preventable harm.” We posed the question; CMS now requires that all participating hospitals answer our query. Advisors/Committee Members: MacKenzie, Ellen J (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Quality; Venous Thromboembolism; Deep Vein Thrombosis; Pulmonary Embolism; Surveillance Bias
Haut, E. R. (2014). Preventable Harm from Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) - A New Metric for Quality of Care . (Thesis). Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved from http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36954
Haut, Elliott R. “Preventable Harm from Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) - A New Metric for Quality of Care.” 2014. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36954.
Haut, Elliott R. “Preventable Harm from Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) - A New Metric for Quality of Care.” 2014. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Haut ER. Preventable Harm from Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) - A New Metric for Quality of Care. [Internet] [Thesis]. Johns Hopkins University; 2014. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36954.
Haut ER. Preventable Harm from Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) - A New Metric for Quality of Care. [Thesis]. Johns Hopkins University; 2014. Available from: http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/36954
14. Taanila, Anette. The role of a malignancy in the treatment of a venous thromboembolism and superficial thrombophlebitis.
Degree: Medicinska fakulteten, 2017, University of Helsinki
► Cancer patients have a manifold risk of suffering from both thrombotic events and anticoagulation-related bleeding complications. For this reason, knowledge of their adequate medication is… (more)
▼ Cancer patients have a manifold risk of suffering from both thrombotic events and anticoagulation-related bleeding complications. For this reason, knowledge of their adequate medication is crucial. The aims of this study were to find out are guidelines being followed regarding the treatment of venous thromboembolisms. The emphasis was on the anticoagulation therapy of cancer patients, but also non-cancer patients were analyzed as controls. Data was collected from the clinical information system Uranus CGI. All patient records (with the diagnostic codes I26.0, I67.6, I74.3, I80*, I81*, I83*, K55, N28.0, 022.3) in the hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa (Jorvi, Meilahti, Peijas, Lohja, Porvoo, Tammisaari and Hyvinkää hospitals) during the time period 1.1.2014- 29.4.2016 were reviewed. Statistical analysis was performed using the IBM SPSS Statistics and Microsoft Excel computer softwares. The study included 1667 patients, out of whom 163 (9.8%) had active cancer. The recommendation of using low molecular weight heparins as the primary anticoagulants for patients with malignancies has been practiced. More research is necessary in order to find the optimal duration for treatment of, especially, isolated calf muscle venous thromboses and cancer patients' superficial thrombophlebitides.
Subjects/Keywords: venous; thromboembolism; thrombophlebitis; cancer; anticoagulation; treatment; Emergency Medicine; Akuuttilääketiede; Akutmedicin
Taanila, A. (2017). The role of a malignancy in the treatment of a venous thromboembolism and superficial thrombophlebitis . (Masters Thesis). University of Helsinki. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10138/184203
Taanila, Anette. “The role of a malignancy in the treatment of a venous thromboembolism and superficial thrombophlebitis.” 2017. Masters Thesis, University of Helsinki. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10138/184203.
Taanila, Anette. “The role of a malignancy in the treatment of a venous thromboembolism and superficial thrombophlebitis.” 2017. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Taanila A. The role of a malignancy in the treatment of a venous thromboembolism and superficial thrombophlebitis. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Helsinki; 2017. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/184203.
Taanila A. The role of a malignancy in the treatment of a venous thromboembolism and superficial thrombophlebitis. [Masters Thesis]. University of Helsinki; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/184203
15. Onwasigwe, Nzubechukwu Chisom. Clinical trial with ximelagatran in orthopedic surgery .
Degree: DE – Általános Orvostudományi Kar, University of Debrecen
► ximelagatran is an oral direct thrombin inhibitor promising great prevention of venous thromboembolism. it has a predictable and consistent pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetics. this makes it… (more)
▼ ximelagatran is an oral direct thrombin inhibitor promising great prevention of venous thromboembolism. it has a predictable and consistent pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetics. this makes it suitable for outpatient use. there is no spinal hematoma following neuraxial anesthesia with the use of ximelagatran. in clinical trial ximelagatran showed great effetiveness and tolerance when compared with standard therapy. Advisors/Committee Members: Pórszász, Róbert (advisor), Debreceni Egyetem::Általános Orvostudományi Kar::Farmakológiai és Farmakoterápiai Intézet (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: prevention of venous thromboembolism
Onwasigwe, N. C. (n.d.). Clinical trial with ximelagatran in orthopedic surgery . (Thesis). University of Debrecen. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2437/218929
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Onwasigwe, Nzubechukwu Chisom. “Clinical trial with ximelagatran in orthopedic surgery .” Thesis, University of Debrecen. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2437/218929.
Onwasigwe, Nzubechukwu Chisom. “Clinical trial with ximelagatran in orthopedic surgery .” Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Onwasigwe NC. Clinical trial with ximelagatran in orthopedic surgery . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/218929.
Onwasigwe NC. Clinical trial with ximelagatran in orthopedic surgery . [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/218929
16. Radwi, Mansoor. Factors that influence heparin levels in patients with venous thromboembolism treated with subcutaneous weight-adjusted unfractionated heparin and low-molecular weight heparin, and whether heparin levels are associated with bleeding and recurrent venous thromboembolic events.
► 1. Abstract 1.1. Background It is uncertain whether 1) patient’s characteristics (e.g., age, weight, height, and sex) influence anti-Xa heparin levels (hereafter referred to as… (more)
▼ 1. Abstract 1.1. Background It is uncertain whether 1) patient’s characteristics (e.g., age, weight, height, and sex) influence anti-Xa heparin levels (hereafter referred to as "heparin levels"), or 2) if heparin levels influence recurrent venous thromboembolism (VTE) or bleeding events, in patients with acute VTE treated with weight-adjusted therapeutic-dose subcutaneous (SC) unfractionated heparin (UFH) or SC low-molecular weight heparin (LMWH). To determine if either association exist, we analyzed data from the Fixed-Dose Heparin (FIDO) study, in which patients were randomized to either SC UFH or SC LMWH, each given in fixed weight-adjusted doses and overlapped with 3 month of warfarin therapy for treatment of acute VTE. 1.2. Methods During the original study, 708 patients were asked to participate in a sub-study that would measure peak heparin levels while they were treated with heparin. 408 patients provided blood samples and met the eligibility criteria for the analyses in this thesis. Linear regression was used to examine the influence of patients’ baseline characteristics (e.g., age, weight, height, body mass index [BMI], sex) on heparin levels. The influence of other factors (e.g., type of heparin [UFH or LMWH]) on heparin levels was also assessed. Logistic regression was used to examine the association of heparin levels with the outcomes of 1) recurrent VTE during 3 months of follow up, and 2) bleeding events in the first 10 days of follow up. 1.3. Results: Mean heparin levels were 0.695 in patients treated with UFH, 0.698 in those treated with dalteparin and 1.034 in those treated with enoxaparin (p<0.001; R2=0.08 for variability accounted for by type of heparin). In a univariable analysis, heparin levels increase by 0.04 IU/ml (95% CI 0.02-0.07; p=0.001; R2=0.03) for every 10-kg increment in weight, by 0.02 IU/ml (95% CI 0.01-0.03; p<0.001; R2=0.04) for each unit of BMI, and by 0.03 IU/ml (95% CI 0.01-0.05; p=0.001; R2=0.03) for every 10 mol/l increment in creatinine. In a multivariable analysis, weight, BMI, and creatinine still influenced heparin levels, after adjusting for type of heparin and timing of blood sample withdrawal. Although heparin levels increased with weight, the magnitude was not large enough to suggest altering the current weight-based dosing method for LMWH. Other baseline factors such as age, height, type of VTE, creatinine clearance and hospitalization status did not influence heparin levels in patients treated with UFH or LMWH. In a univariable analysis, when heparin levels were treated as a continuous variable, higher heparin levels were associated with a lower risk of recurrent VTE at 90-days in patients treated with LMWH (OR 0.04, 95% CI 0.003-0.550, for each 1.0 IU/ml increase in heparin levels), but not in patients treated with UFH (OR 1.46, 95% CI 0.37-5.58, for each 1.0 IU/ml increase in heparin levels). In addition, higher heparin levels were associated with a higher risk of bleeding at 10-days in patients treated with UFH (OR 3.32, 95% CI 1.30-8.46 for each 1 IU/ml… Advisors/Committee Members: Kearon, Clive, Health Research Methodology.
Subjects/Keywords: heparin; anti-Xa levels; venous thromboembolism; bleeding; outcomes; regression
Radwi, M. (2018). Factors that influence heparin levels in patients with venous thromboembolism treated with subcutaneous weight-adjusted unfractionated heparin and low-molecular weight heparin, and whether heparin levels are associated with bleeding and recurrent venous thromboembolic events . (Masters Thesis). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22759
Radwi, Mansoor. “Factors that influence heparin levels in patients with venous thromboembolism treated with subcutaneous weight-adjusted unfractionated heparin and low-molecular weight heparin, and whether heparin levels are associated with bleeding and recurrent venous thromboembolic events.” 2018. Masters Thesis, McMaster University. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22759.
Radwi, Mansoor. “Factors that influence heparin levels in patients with venous thromboembolism treated with subcutaneous weight-adjusted unfractionated heparin and low-molecular weight heparin, and whether heparin levels are associated with bleeding and recurrent venous thromboembolic events.” 2018. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Radwi M. Factors that influence heparin levels in patients with venous thromboembolism treated with subcutaneous weight-adjusted unfractionated heparin and low-molecular weight heparin, and whether heparin levels are associated with bleeding and recurrent venous thromboembolic events. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. McMaster University; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22759.
Radwi M. Factors that influence heparin levels in patients with venous thromboembolism treated with subcutaneous weight-adjusted unfractionated heparin and low-molecular weight heparin, and whether heparin levels are associated with bleeding and recurrent venous thromboembolic events. [Masters Thesis]. McMaster University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/22759
17. Sykes, PK. Translating evidence into practice : a case study on the prevention of venous thromboembolism using the Joanna Briggs Institute model of evidence-based health care.
URL: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23206/2/Sykes_whole_thesis.pdf
► Getting the best available evidence into daily routine practice at the bedside is necessary to benefit patients and health care budgets. Easily understood and ready… (more)
▼ Getting the best available evidence into daily routine practice at the bedside is necessary to benefit patients and health care budgets. Easily understood and ready available synthesised evidence is not sufficient on its own, it also requires evidence-based knowledge translation strategies and interventions that take into consideration all levels and aspects within the organisation. The science on knowledge translation is still evolving with a multitude of theories, frameworks and models being postulated. Review and comparison of three translation research methodologies are described in this study. The rationale for selecting the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) model of evidence-based health care in a practical case study on the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in an acute tertiary referral teaching public hospital is provided. A planned and systematic approach to the implementation of best practice on this topic was undertaken utilising the JBI on-line resources and action research methodology. This required careful consultation and collaboration with senior clinicians by credible change agents, the provision of evidence and data relevant to individual specialties, the implementation of change strategies addressing individual, group and organisational barriers, and measuring the effectiveness and impact of changes over time. Lessons learnt from this process not only inform the study hospital on the effectiveness of the selected knowledge translation method but also contribute to the conversation within the scientific literature through the publication of three papers. The key publication describes the practical case study using the JBI implementation model and is accompanied by two further papers that provide examples of knowledge that have evolved from two of the action research cycles. These describe the use of computerised clinical decision support systems as an aid to knowledge translation and how a consumer focus group informed the production of a patient education video. This study is an important critique of the JBI model for evidence-based health care and its applicability for continued use in the study hospital as a feasible, appropriate, meaningful and effective model for evidence implementation. The JBI model is a conceptual framework that incorporates four integral and interdependent components: evidence generation; evidence synthesis; evidence/knowledge transfer; and evidence utilisation. The evidence utilisation component of the JBI model relates to the implementation of evidence into practice and reflects a planned action model. It provides a frame of reference for organised thinking and a structured and logical step-by-step progression through the planned action phases, underpinned and guided by the on-line resources. Improvements in compliance with three of the four evidence-based audit criteria were observed in the initial action cycle. The variable success was not attributed to a failure in the JBI model but was contributed to by contextual and logistical barriers mostly identified at…
Subjects/Keywords: evidence-based practice; implementation; barriers; clinical audit; venous thromboembolism
Sykes, P. (2015). Translating evidence into practice : a case study on the prevention of venous thromboembolism using the Joanna Briggs Institute model of evidence-based health care . (Thesis). University of Tasmania. Retrieved from https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23206/2/Sykes_whole_thesis.pdf
Sykes, PK. “Translating evidence into practice : a case study on the prevention of venous thromboembolism using the Joanna Briggs Institute model of evidence-based health care.” 2015. Thesis, University of Tasmania. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23206/2/Sykes_whole_thesis.pdf.
Sykes, PK. “Translating evidence into practice : a case study on the prevention of venous thromboembolism using the Joanna Briggs Institute model of evidence-based health care.” 2015. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Sykes P. Translating evidence into practice : a case study on the prevention of venous thromboembolism using the Joanna Briggs Institute model of evidence-based health care. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Tasmania; 2015. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23206/2/Sykes_whole_thesis.pdf.
Sykes P. Translating evidence into practice : a case study on the prevention of venous thromboembolism using the Joanna Briggs Institute model of evidence-based health care. [Thesis]. University of Tasmania; 2015. Available from: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23206/2/Sykes_whole_thesis.pdf
18. Rees, Peter Adam. The role of extrinsic clotting pathway activation in the colorectal cancer microenvironment.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Manchester
URL: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-extrinsic-clotting-pathway-activation-in-the-colorectal-cancer-microenvironment(3249687f-147d-4a41-9ca1-76471e9baac1).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.764759
► Malignancy is associated with a hypercoagulable state manifested clinically by an increased incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Colorectal cancer (CRC) patients who develop VTE have… (more)
▼ Malignancy is associated with a hypercoagulable state manifested clinically by an increased incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Colorectal cancer (CRC) patients who develop VTE have reduced survival. This increased mortality extends beyond the acute VTE event, suggesting that VTE is associated with aggressive tumour biology. Tissue factor (TF) and other clotting factors have been implicated in this process. However, the significance of clotting factors in the tumour microenvironment (TME) remains unknown. The aim of this thesis is to i) determine if a procoagulant TME is a biomarker for poor prognosis and VTE in patients undergoing resectional surgery for CRC and ii) determine the effect of TF, thrombin and FXa on proliferation and migration in vitro in CRC and if their inhibitors have potential as anticancer therapies. In the in vitro studies, epithelial expression of TF had a modest effect on proliferation and migration when quantified using the PrestoBlue proliferation and transwell migration assays. Exogenous TF, FXa and thrombin all increased migration in DLD-1 wild type cells. In addition, exogenous thrombin increased proliferation amongst SW620 wild type cells. This suggests that coagulation factors from the TME, rather than epithelial expression, may influence tumour biology. Moreover, dabigatran, a direct thrombin inhibitor, abrogated the pro-proliferative effects of thrombin, which highlights its potential role as an anticancer therapy. In a multicentre, prospective cohort study of 159 CRC patients undergoing resectional surgery, rates of duplex screen detected deep vein thrombosis (DVT) were correlated to plasma and tumour markers of hypercoagulability. TF is upregulated in the stroma of cancer compared to normal tissue. However, stromal TF expression decreased in more advanced (T4) tumours. This suggests that a procoagulant TME has a role in early tumourigenesis. In total, 5.4%, 7.0% and 9.1% of patients had an asymptomatic DVT pre- operatively, at six weeks post-surgery and after the commencement of adjuvant chemotherapy respectively. The development of a post-operative complication was a risk factor for DVT, whilst locally advanced tumours resulted in a prolonged hypercoagulable state i.e. raised D-dimer at six weeks. This highlights a possible role for pre- and post- operative screening duplex ultrasonography and super-extended VTE prophylaxis in selected patients. In conclusion, this thesis establishes a role for exogenous coagulation factors in promoting tumour biology in CRC. VTE is more common amongst patients undergoing resectional surgery for CRC than previously estimated. The utility of tumour and plasma hypercoagulabilty as biomarkers for survival in CRC will be further analysed when long term follow-up data is available.
Subjects/Keywords: colorectal cancer; venous thromboembolism; tumour microenvironment; tissue factor
Rees, P. A. (2018). The role of extrinsic clotting pathway activation in the colorectal cancer microenvironment . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-extrinsic-clotting-pathway-activation-in-the-colorectal-cancer-microenvironment(3249687f-147d-4a41-9ca1-76471e9baac1).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.764759
Rees, Peter Adam. “The role of extrinsic clotting pathway activation in the colorectal cancer microenvironment.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-extrinsic-clotting-pathway-activation-in-the-colorectal-cancer-microenvironment(3249687f-147d-4a41-9ca1-76471e9baac1).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.764759.
Rees, Peter Adam. “The role of extrinsic clotting pathway activation in the colorectal cancer microenvironment.” 2018. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Rees PA. The role of extrinsic clotting pathway activation in the colorectal cancer microenvironment. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-extrinsic-clotting-pathway-activation-in-the-colorectal-cancer-microenvironment(3249687f-147d-4a41-9ca1-76471e9baac1).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.764759.
Rees PA. The role of extrinsic clotting pathway activation in the colorectal cancer microenvironment. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2018. Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-extrinsic-clotting-pathway-activation-in-the-colorectal-cancer-microenvironment(3249687f-147d-4a41-9ca1-76471e9baac1).html ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.764759
19. Roetker, Nicholas. Venous Thromboembolism: Assessing Novel Risk Factors and Treatments.
Degree: PhD, Epidemiology, 2017, University of Minnesota
► Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, is the third leading cause of cardiovascular death. This dissertation includes research intended to improve… (more)
▼ Venous thromboembolism (VTE), comprising deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism, is the third leading cause of cardiovascular death. This dissertation includes research intended to improve our understanding of two potential risk factors for VTE (body height and endogenous sex hormones) and the comparative safety of novel drugs [direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs)] and warfarin used for treating patients with VTE. Manuscript 1 uses data from two prospective cohorts [the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study and Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS)] and a case-control study (the Mayo Clinic VTE Study) to examine the association between body height and risk of VTE using a Mendelian randomization approach, which may be less influenced by traditional confounding factors. Taller height was associated with an increased risk of VTE. Manuscript 2 uses data from the ARIC study to examine the associations between plasma levels of endogenous testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), and sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) with incidence of VTE using Cox proportional hazards regression. Plasma hormones were not associated with incidence of VTE among men and postmenopausal women not using exogenous hormones. Lower plasma DHEAS and higher plasma SHBG, when modeled using quartiles, were associated with higher risk of VTE among postmenopausal women using exogenous hormones. Manuscript 3 uses administrative claims data from enrollees in a large, private, nationwide health plan to compare the risk of all-cause mortality during the primary treatment of VTE between groups of enrollees with prescriptions for different oral anticoagulants using marginal structural logistic models. There was no association between having a prescription for warfarin versus any DOAC or between any head-to-head DOAC comparisons with risk of all-cause mortality occurring within 3 or 6 months. This dissertation extends our knowledge on VTE risk factors and the primary treatment of VTE, which could contribute to future preventive efforts and treatment guidelines.
Subjects/Keywords: all-cause mortality; body height; oral anticoagulants; sex hormones; venous thromboembolism
Roetker, N. (2017). Venous Thromboembolism: Assessing Novel Risk Factors and Treatments . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Minnesota. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11299/202149
Roetker, Nicholas. “Venous Thromboembolism: Assessing Novel Risk Factors and Treatments.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11299/202149.
Roetker, Nicholas. “Venous Thromboembolism: Assessing Novel Risk Factors and Treatments.” 2017. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Roetker N. Venous Thromboembolism: Assessing Novel Risk Factors and Treatments. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2017. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/202149.
Roetker N. Venous Thromboembolism: Assessing Novel Risk Factors and Treatments. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/202149
20. Gaston, Sherryl. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prophylaxis: a comprehensive systematic review of the facilitators and barriers to healthcare worker compliance with clinical practice guidelines in the acute care setting.
Degree: 2013, University of Adelaide
► Background: Even though guidelines for venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prophylaxis are available, patients with identifiable risk factors admitted to acute hospitals are not… (more)
▼ Background: Even though guidelines for venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prophylaxis are available, patients with identifiable risk factors admitted to acute hospitals are not receiving appropriate prophylaxis. The incidence of VTE in hospitalised patients is higher than that of people living in the community who have similar demographics. Knowledge of barriers to clinician compliance with clinical practice guidelines and facilitators to improve compliance will aid appropriate use of VTE clinical practice guidelines. Objectives: The objective of this review was to identify the barriers and facilitators to healthcare professional compliance with clinical practice guidelines for VTE assessment and prophylaxis. Inclusion criteria Types of participants: Studies were considered for inclusion regardless of the designation of the healthcare professional involved in the acute care setting. Focus of the review: The focus of the review was compliance with VTE clinical practice guidelines and identified facilitators and barriers to clinical use of these guidelines in the acute care setting. Types of studies: Any experimental, observational studies or qualitative research studies evaluating healthcare professional compliance with clinical practice guidelines were considered for inclusion in this review. Types of outcomes: The outcomes of interest were percentage of compliance with VTE guidelines and identified barriers and facilitators to that compliance. Search strategy: A comprehensive, three-step search strategy was conducted for studies published from May 2003 to November 2011 due to a previous systematic review that overlaps this one, and aimed to identify both published and unpublished studies in the English language across six major databases (PubMed/MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, Scopus, ProQuest & MedNar). Methodological quality: Retrieved papers were assessed by two independent reviewers prior to inclusion in the review using standardised critical appraisal instruments from the Joanna Briggs Institute. The critical appraisal tools used were MAStARI for the quantitative studies and QARI for the qualitative studies. There were no disagreements between the two reviewers. Data collection: Both quantitative and qualitative data was extracted from included papers using the standardised data extraction tools MAStARI and QARI from the Joanna Briggs Institute. Data synthesis: Quantitative data was pooled using narrative summary due to heterogeneity in the ways in which data was reported, using quasi-experimental pre and post studies, cohort study and descriptive/case series. Qualitative data was pooled using Joanna Briggs Institute QARI data synthesis tool. Results: In total, twenty studies were included in the review, eighteen quantitative and two qualitative with methodological quality ranging from low to high using the Joanna Briggs Institute appraisal tools MAStARI and QARI. The lowest and highest reported compliance in the quantitative studies at baseline ranged from 6.25% to 70.4% and compliance post… Advisors/Committee Members: White, Sarahlouise (advisor), School of Translational Health Science (school).
Subjects/Keywords: venous thromboembolism (VTE, DVT, PE); risk assessment; compliance; prophylaxis; healthcare professional
Gaston, S. (2013). Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prophylaxis: a comprehensive systematic review of the facilitators and barriers to healthcare worker compliance with clinical practice guidelines in the acute care setting. (Thesis). University of Adelaide. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2440/82715
Gaston, Sherryl. “Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prophylaxis: a comprehensive systematic review of the facilitators and barriers to healthcare worker compliance with clinical practice guidelines in the acute care setting.” 2013. Thesis, University of Adelaide. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/82715.
Gaston, Sherryl. “Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prophylaxis: a comprehensive systematic review of the facilitators and barriers to healthcare worker compliance with clinical practice guidelines in the acute care setting.” 2013. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Gaston S. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prophylaxis: a comprehensive systematic review of the facilitators and barriers to healthcare worker compliance with clinical practice guidelines in the acute care setting. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Adelaide; 2013. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/82715.
Gaston S. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment and prophylaxis: a comprehensive systematic review of the facilitators and barriers to healthcare worker compliance with clinical practice guidelines in the acute care setting. [Thesis]. University of Adelaide; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2440/82715
Degree: 2018, University of Manchester
URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:316936
▼ Malignancy is associated with a hypercoagulable state manifested clinically by an increased incidence of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Colorectal cancer (CRC) patients who develop VTE have reduced survival. This increased mortality extends beyond the acute VTE event, suggesting that VTE is associated with aggressive tumour biology. Tissue factor (TF) and other clotting factors have been implicated in this process. However, the significance of clotting factors in the tumour microenvironment (TME) remains unknown. The aim of this thesis is to i) determine if a procoagulant TME is a biomarker for poor prognosis and VTE in patients undergoing resectional surgery for CRC and ii) determine the effect of TF, thrombin and FXa on proliferation and migration in vitro in CRC and if their inhibitors have potential as anticancer therapies. In the in vitro studies, epithelial expression of TF had a modest effect on proliferation and migration when quantified using the PrestoBlue proliferation and transwell migration assays. Exogenous TF, FXa and thrombin all increased migration in DLD-1 wild type cells. In addition, exogenous thrombin increased proliferation amongst SW620 wild type cells. This suggests that coagulation factors from the TME, rather than epithelial expression, may influence tumour biology. Moreover, dabigatran, a direct thrombin inhibitor, abrogated the pro-proliferative effects of thrombin, which highlights its potential role as an anticancer therapy. In a multicentre, prospective cohort study of 159 CRC patients undergoing resectional surgery, rates of duplex screen detected deep vein thrombosis (DVT) were correlated to plasma and tumour markers of hypercoagulability. TF is upregulated in the stroma of cancer compared to normal tissue. However, stromal TF expression decreased in more advanced (T4) tumours. This suggests that a procoagulant TME has a role in early tumourigenesis. In total, 5.4%, 7.0% and 9.1% of patients had an asymptomatic DVT pre- operatively, at six weeks post-surgery and after the commencement of adjuvant chemotherapy respectively. The development of a post-operative complication was a risk factor for DVT, whilst locally advanced tumours resulted in a prolonged hypercoagulable state i.e. raised D-dimer at six weeks. This highlights a possible role for pre- and post- operative screening duplex ultrasonography and super-extended VTE prophylaxis in selected patients. In conclusion, this thesis establishes a role for exogenous coagulation factors in promoting tumour biology in CRC. VTE is more common amongst patients undergoing resectional surgery for CRC than previously estimated. The utility of tumour and plasma hypercoagulabilty as biomarkers for survival in CRC will be further analysed when long term follow-up data is available. Advisors/Committee Members: LAMB, REBECCA RM, DUFF, SARAH S, Kirwan, Cliona, Lamb, Rebecca, Duff, Sarah.
Rees, P. A. (2018). The role of extrinsic clotting pathway activation in the colorectal cancer microenvironment . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:316936
Rees, Peter Adam. “The role of extrinsic clotting pathway activation in the colorectal cancer microenvironment.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:316936.
Rees PA. The role of extrinsic clotting pathway activation in the colorectal cancer microenvironment. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:316936.
Rees PA. The role of extrinsic clotting pathway activation in the colorectal cancer microenvironment. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2018. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:316936
22. Munch, Kyle Andrew. Impact of an Electronic Health Record (Ehr) Implementation on Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism (Vte) Rates and Appropriateness of Prophylaxis Therapy.
Degree: Pharmacy, College of, University of Houston
► PURPOSE: Hospital-acquired VTE is a very serious health complication for hospitalized patients leading to increased medical costs and death. VTE is preventable and therefore is… (more)
▼ PURPOSE: Hospital-acquired VTE is a very serious health complication for hospitalized patients leading to increased medical costs and death. VTE is preventable and therefore is not reimbursed by payers. The impact of an integrated EHR on VTE prophylaxis strategies and the incidence of hospital-acquired VTE is unknown. The purpose of this project is to determine the incidence of hospital-acquired VTE and assess the appropriateness of prophylaxis therapy provided pre- and post-implementation of an integrated EHR. METHODS: Using data retrospectively collected from University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), investigators compared incidence of hospital-acquired VTE as well as the appropriateness of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapies provided for a time period of six months prior versus six months after implementation of an integrated EHR. RESULTS: There were 158 cases of hospital-acquired VTE out of 13,685 patient discharges during the pre-EHR time period of July 1st, 2012 through December 31st, 2012. A total of 114 cases of hospital-acquired VTE out of 12,876 patient discharges during the post-EHR time period of July 1st, 2013 through December 31st, 2013 resulted in a statistically significant decline in the incidence of hospital-acquired VTE (p = 0.0294). Appropriateness of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic prophylaxis therapy provided to sample groups (N = 75) of both populations, determined as the average length of stay (LOS) during which time appropriate risk-stratified prophylaxis was provided, was not significantly different (p = 0.9679). There was also no statistical difference in appropriateness of prophylaxis provided to sample groups (N = 75) of all discharged patients post-EHR and patients with confirmed VTE post-EHR (p = 0.2141). CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of an integrated EHR may have a significant impact in reducing the rates of hospital-acquired VTE. Advisors/Committee Members: Garey, Kevin W. (advisor), Bayat, Maryam (committee member), Putney, Kimberly (committee member), Varkey, Divya (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: electronic health record; venous thromboembolism
Munch, K. A. (n.d.). Impact of an Electronic Health Record (Ehr) Implementation on Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism (Vte) Rates and Appropriateness of Prophylaxis Therapy . (Thesis). University of Houston. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10657/2788
Munch, Kyle Andrew. “Impact of an Electronic Health Record (Ehr) Implementation on Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism (Vte) Rates and Appropriateness of Prophylaxis Therapy.” Thesis, University of Houston. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10657/2788.
Munch, Kyle Andrew. “Impact of an Electronic Health Record (Ehr) Implementation on Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism (Vte) Rates and Appropriateness of Prophylaxis Therapy.” Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Munch KA. Impact of an Electronic Health Record (Ehr) Implementation on Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism (Vte) Rates and Appropriateness of Prophylaxis Therapy. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Houston; [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10657/2788.
Munch KA. Impact of an Electronic Health Record (Ehr) Implementation on Hospital-Acquired Venous Thromboembolism (Vte) Rates and Appropriateness of Prophylaxis Therapy. [Thesis]. University of Houston; Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10657/2788
23. Lattimore, Lois Eileen. Factor V Leiden, Prothrombin G20210A, and MTHFR C677T Polymorphisms in Cancer Patients with Venous Thromboembolism .
► Intro/Aims: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common complication in cancer patients. The role of thrombophilic polymorphisms in cancer related VTE remains poorly explored. Aim 1… (more)
▼ Intro/Aims: Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common complication in cancer patients. The role of thrombophilic polymorphisms in cancer related VTE remains poorly explored. Aim 1 of this study was to determine if Factor V Leiden (G1691A), Prothrombin (PT) G20210A or methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) C677T are associated with the increased occurrence of VTE in adult oncology subjects compared to nononcology subjects. Aim 2 of this study was to determine if cancer patients with the MTHFR C677T polymorphism who are treated with antimetabolite therapy have an increased incidence of VTE compared to cancer patients who are treated with other chemotherapy.Setting/Methods: A descriptive, comparative, retrospective chart analysis was utilized for this study in an outpatient hematology, oncology clinic in Southern Arizona. Enrolled were 100 adult subjects (age 18 - 85) with documented history of VTE (27 subjects with cancer and 73 noncancer). Subjects were evaluated for Factor V Leiden, PT G20210A, and MTHFR C677T prior to the study. Eleven subjects were treated with antimetabolite chemotherapy and 8 subjects were treated with other chemotherapy.Results: The overall polymorphism frequency for Factor V Leiden was 21%, PT G20210A 4%, and MTHFR C677T 50%. Factor V Leiden was found in 11.1% of cancer subjects and 24.7% of noncancer subjects. Prothrombin G20210A was found in 3.7% of cancer subjects and 4.1% of noncancer subjects. MTHFR C677T was present in 25.9% of cancer subjects and 58.9% of noncancer subjects. No statistical significance was observed between subjects treated with an antimetabolite and positive for MTHFR C677T compared with those treated with other types of chemotherapy.Conclusion: Analysis of the data collected in this study demonstrated overall higher rates than the expected frequencies of all polymorphism for both the cancer and noncancer patients with documented VTE. In this small retrospective study, the only significant finding was that the MTHFR C677T polymorphism was more prevalent in the noncancer group.Currently, there are no specific guidelines for VTE prevention in the outpatient oncology setting. Identification of risk factors, including prothrombotic mutations may reduce risk of VTE and provide guidance for prophylactic treatment recommendations in the outpatient setting. Advisors/Committee Members: Moore, Ida (Ki) M. (committeemember), Ritter, Leslie (committeemember), Gallek, Matthew J. (committeemember).
Subjects/Keywords: Cancer; Factor V Leiden; MTHFR C677T; Prothrombin G20210A; Venous Thromboembolism
Lattimore, L. E. (2010). Factor V Leiden, Prothrombin G20210A, and MTHFR C677T Polymorphisms in Cancer Patients with Venous Thromboembolism . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193768
Lattimore, Lois Eileen. “Factor V Leiden, Prothrombin G20210A, and MTHFR C677T Polymorphisms in Cancer Patients with Venous Thromboembolism .” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193768.
Lattimore, Lois Eileen. “Factor V Leiden, Prothrombin G20210A, and MTHFR C677T Polymorphisms in Cancer Patients with Venous Thromboembolism .” 2010. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Lattimore LE. Factor V Leiden, Prothrombin G20210A, and MTHFR C677T Polymorphisms in Cancer Patients with Venous Thromboembolism . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2010. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193768.
Lattimore LE. Factor V Leiden, Prothrombin G20210A, and MTHFR C677T Polymorphisms in Cancer Patients with Venous Thromboembolism . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2010. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193768
24. Constance Lynne Slaboch. Mechanical Characterization and Simulation of Murine Thrombi</h1>.
Degree: MSin Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2011, University of Notre Dame
URL: https://curate.nd.edu/show/qb98mc9025b
► Deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and abdominal aortic aneurysms are blood-related diseases that represent a major public health problem. These diseases are characterized by… (more)
▼ Deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, and abdominal aortic aneurysms are blood-related diseases that represent a major public health problem. These diseases are characterized by the formation of a thrombus (i.e., blood clot) that either blocks a major artery or causes an aortic rupture. Identifying the mechanical properties of thrombi can help determine when these incidents will occur. In this investigation, a murine thrombus, formed from platelet-rich plasma, calcium, and thrombin, was nanoindented and the elastic modulus was determined via elastic contact theory. This information was used as input to an inverse finite element simulation, which synthesized optimal values for the elastic modulus and viscosity of the thrombus using a viscoelastic material model. A sensitivity analysis was also performed to determine which material parameters have the greatest affect on the simulation. Results from this investigation demonstrate the feasibility of the mechanical characterization of a murine thrombus using nanoindentation. Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Timothy C. Ovaert, Committee Chair, Dr. Glen L. Niebur, Committee Member, Dr. Ryan K. Roeder, Committee Member.
Subjects/Keywords: viscoelasticity; murine model; nanoindentation; venous thromboembolism; soft tissue characterization; thrombi mechanics
Slaboch, C. L. (2011). Mechanical Characterization and Simulation of Murine Thrombi</h1> . (Masters Thesis). University of Notre Dame. Retrieved from https://curate.nd.edu/show/qb98mc9025b
Slaboch, Constance Lynne. “Mechanical Characterization and Simulation of Murine Thrombi</h1>.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Notre Dame. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://curate.nd.edu/show/qb98mc9025b.
Slaboch, Constance Lynne. “Mechanical Characterization and Simulation of Murine Thrombi</h1>.” 2011. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Slaboch CL. Mechanical Characterization and Simulation of Murine Thrombi</h1>. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2011. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/qb98mc9025b.
Slaboch CL. Mechanical Characterization and Simulation of Murine Thrombi</h1>. [Masters Thesis]. University of Notre Dame; 2011. Available from: https://curate.nd.edu/show/qb98mc9025b
25. Bricola, Solange Aparecida Petilo de Carvalho. Avaliação dos fatores associados a tromboembolismo pulmonar (TEP), em uma série de autópsias de dez anos.
Degree: PhD, Emergências Clínicas, 2009, University of São Paulo
URL: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5159/tde-05032010-172410/ ;
► INTRODUÇÃO: A literatura demonstra que tromboembolismo venoso permanece como uma doença subdiagnosticada entre os pacientes hospitalizados, com aproximadamente 25% dos casos associados à internação. OBJETIVOS:… (more)
▼ INTRODUÇÃO: A literatura demonstra que tromboembolismo venoso permanece como uma doença subdiagnosticada entre os pacientes hospitalizados, com aproximadamente 25% dos casos associados à internação. OBJETIVOS: Avaliar as doenças associadas ao desenvolvimento de tromboembolismo pulmonar (TEP) diagnosticado em autópsias, e demonstrar a frequência de TEP como causa do óbito ou fator contributivo. MÉTODOS: Estudo caso-controle retrospectivo, realizado no Instituto Central do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, no período de 1995 a 2004. Revisamos os relatórios diagnósticos das autópsias, identificando TEP fatal, quando TEP foi a causa de morte, e TEP não fatal, quando TEP foi doença associada. RESULTADOS: 1.506 pacientes (502 casos e 1.004 controles), 18.359 óbitos no período, média 2.040; 71,2% desses submetidos a autópsias. Observou-se importante declínio nas taxas de autópsias. De 1995-1999 (87,2%) e 2000-2004 (54,4%); p = 0,016. Dos 502 casos (3,8%), em 328 (2,5%) TEP foi causa de morte e 174 (1,3%), causa contributiva. Gênero: 51,6% homens e 48,4% mulheres. Idade: TEP fatal (328) vs controles (1.004), diferença estatisticamente significativa (p = 0,013). Condições prevalentes: câncer grupo, 31,4%, pós-operatório grupo, 17,2%, infecção grupo, 11,7%, e AVC grupo, 11%. Câncer de pulmão, 3,5%, câncer de cérebro e linfoma, 2,8%. Tempo de internação foi utilizado como indicador de imobilização. Outras doenças: AVCH (7,7%), pós-operatório de abdome (6,7%), pneumonia (5,9%), AVCI (3,1%) e pós-operatório vascular (4%) foram frequentes no grupo controle. Em contrapartida, aterosclerose (1,4%), ITU (1,2%), pós-operatório de ginecologia (0,8%), pós-operatório de obstetrícia (0,6%) e doença falciforme (0,6%) foram frequentes no grupo TEP. Cirrose, média de 14,9 dias de internação dos controles vs TEP com 4,4 dias (p < 0,001). Análise multivariada incluiu as condições com p 0,20 da univariada, idade e tempo de internação. Fator protetor para TEP: aneurisma de aorta (OR 0,02, IC 95% 0,46-0,56; p = 0,004), cirrose (OR 0,16, IC 95% 0,08-0,34; p < 0,001) e SIDA (OR 0,44, IC 95% 0,23-0,84; p = 0,013). Entretanto, AVCI (OR 1,82, IC 95% 1,04-3,19; p = 0,035), câncer de cérebro (OR 2,47, IC 95% 1,28-4,78; p = 0,007), câncer indeterminado (OR 3,12, IC 95% 1,01-9,68; p = 0,049), DPOC (OR 2,83, IC 95% 1,47-5,43; p = 0,002), ICC (OR 1,71, IC 95% 1,11-2,62; p = 0,015) e ITU (OR 4,34, IC 95% 1,05-17,82; p = 0,042) mostraram associação positiva com TEP. Idade vs TEP (OR 1,10, IC 95% 1,04-1,16; p = 0,001). Tempo de internação vs TEP (OR 1,19, IC 95% 1,05-1,36; p = 0,008). DISCUSSÃO: A porcentagem dos pacientes com TEP permanece inalterada, ocorrência de 4,1% e 3,4% no primero e no segundo períodos, com uma média de 3,8%. Em 50,4% dos pacientes não foi realizado o diagnóstico clínico de TEP. CONCLUSÃO: Constatou-se AVCI, câncer de cérebro indeterminado, DPOC, ICC e ITU com significância estatística e associação com TEP. Algumas fraquezas do presente estudo devem ser apuradas, e talvez explicarão as… Advisors/Committee Members: Martins, Milton de Arruda.
Subjects/Keywords: Autópsia; Autopsies; Diagnosis; Diagnóstico; Fatores de risco; Pulmonary thromboembolism; Risc factors; Tromboembolia venosa; Tromboembolismo pulmonar; Venous thromboembolism
Bricola, S. A. P. d. C. (2009). Avaliação dos fatores associados a tromboembolismo pulmonar (TEP), em uma série de autópsias de dez anos . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of São Paulo. Retrieved from http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5159/tde-05032010-172410/ ;
Bricola, Solange Aparecida Petilo de Carvalho. “Avaliação dos fatores associados a tromboembolismo pulmonar (TEP), em uma série de autópsias de dez anos.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of São Paulo. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5159/tde-05032010-172410/ ;.
Bricola, Solange Aparecida Petilo de Carvalho. “Avaliação dos fatores associados a tromboembolismo pulmonar (TEP), em uma série de autópsias de dez anos.” 2009. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Bricola SAPdC. Avaliação dos fatores associados a tromboembolismo pulmonar (TEP), em uma série de autópsias de dez anos. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of São Paulo; 2009. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5159/tde-05032010-172410/ ;.
Bricola SAPdC. Avaliação dos fatores associados a tromboembolismo pulmonar (TEP), em uma série de autópsias de dez anos. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of São Paulo; 2009. Available from: http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/5/5159/tde-05032010-172410/ ;
26. Dagadaki, Ourania. Πρώιμη διάγνωση εν τω βάθει φλεβικής θρόμβωσης: πρωτοκολλοποιημένη μελέτη με υπέρηχους ασθενών μονάδας εντατικής θεραπείας.
Degree: 2019, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ)
Study objective : The utility of periodic sonographic assessment and monitoring for early diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in patients hospitalized in intensive care… (more)
Study objective : The utility of periodic sonographic assessment and monitoring for early diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICUs) was investigated.Methods : Of 314 patients hospitalized in an ICU over a 24-mo period, 248 were examined. The first examination of the patients was carried out within the first 48 h of ICU admission, and weekly examination followed until discharge. Peripheral veins were examined according to the general principles of the ultrasound study using the compression test in B-mode imaging (image to gray scale). The criterion for the absence or presence of a clot within the lumen was the presence or absence of full compressibility of the venous lumen, respectively. Intermittent compression was applied to multiple cross sections along the entire extent of the limbs.Results : Three patients (1.2%) were diagnosed with sub-clinical DVT. The diagnoses were made on the third (sapheno-femoral junction), fourth (right internal jugular) and fifth (left gastrocnemius) weeks of hospitalization, respectively, although patients received full anticoagulation prophylaxis.Conclusion : DVT in a general-population ICU patient on anticoagulation prophylaxis did not seem to occur very frequently, and hence, regular ultrasound monitoring is not recommended. However, it may have value after the third week or in a selected population of ICU patients with very severe and/or multiple predisposing factors or who are not undergoing anticoagulant treatment because of contraindications.
Σκοπός : Εξετάστηκε η χρησιμότητα του περιοδικού υπερηχογραφικού ελέγχου και η παρακολούθηση της πρώιμης διάγνωσης της εν τω βάθει φλεβικής θρόμβωσης (DVT) σε ασθενείς που νοσηλεύονταν σε Μονάδα Εντατικής Θεραπείας (ΜΕΘ).Υλικό μέθοδος : Από τους 314 ασθενείς που νοσηλεύτηκαν στη ΜΕΘ σε διάστημα 24 μηνών, εξετάστηκαν 248 ασθενείς. Η 1η εξέταση του ασθενών πραγματοποιήθηκε το πρώτο 48ωρό από την εισαγωγή στη ΜΕΘ και στη συνέχεια γινόταν εβδομαδιαία εξέταση έως την ημέρα εξόδου. Οι περιφερικές φλέβες εξετάστηκαν σύμφωνα με τις γενικές αρχές της μελέτης υπερήχων χρησιμοποιώντας τη δοκιμασία συμπίεσης σε απεικόνιση τύπου Β (εικόνα σε γκρι κλίμακα). Το κριτήριο για την απουσία ή παρουσία ενός θρόμβου εντός του αυλού ήταν η παρουσία ή απουσία πλήρους συμπιεστότητας του φλεβικού αυλού, αντίστοιχα. Ελήφθησαν πολλαπλές εγκάρσιες τομές κατά μήκος ολόκληρης της έκτασης των φλεβών των άκρων εφαρμόζοντας διαλείπουσα συμπίεση.Αποτελέσματα : Τρεις ασθενείς (1,2%) διαγνώστηκαν με υποκλινική DVT. Οι διαγνώσεις έγιναν την 3η (σαφηνομηριαία συμβολή), την 4η (δεξιά έσω σφαγίτιδα) και την 5η (αριστερή γαστροκνημιαία χώρα) εβδομάδα νοσηλείας, αντίστοιχα, αν και οι ασθενείς ελάμβαναν προφυλακτικά πλήρη αντιπηκτική αγωγή.Συμπεράσματα : Η παρουσία ΕΒΦΘ σε γενικό πληθυσμό ασθενών ΜΕΘ οι οποίοι λαμβάνουν προφυλακτικά αντιπηκτική αγωγή, είναι μικρή και η εβδομαδιαία υπερηχογραφική παρακολούθηση του φλεβικού δικτύου σε ασθενείς ΜΕΘ είναι αμφιλεγόμενη. Μπορεί να έχει αξία μετά την 3η εβδομάδα νοσηλείας ή σε…
Subjects/Keywords: Μονάδα εντατικής θεραπείας; Φλεβική θρομβοεμβολή; Θρομβοπροφύλαξη; Υπερηχογραφική εκτίμηση φλεβικού δικτύου; Ntensive care units; Venous thromboembolism; Thromboprophylaxis; Venous ultrasound assessment
Dagadaki, O. (2019). Πρώιμη διάγνωση εν τω βάθει φλεβικής θρόμβωσης: πρωτοκολλοποιημένη μελέτη με υπέρηχους ασθενών μονάδας εντατικής θεραπείας . (Thesis). National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/45441
Dagadaki, Ourania. “Πρώιμη διάγνωση εν τω βάθει φλεβικής θρόμβωσης: πρωτοκολλοποιημένη μελέτη με υπέρηχους ασθενών μονάδας εντατικής θεραπείας.” 2019. Thesis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ). Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/45441.
Dagadaki, Ourania. “Πρώιμη διάγνωση εν τω βάθει φλεβικής θρόμβωσης: πρωτοκολλοποιημένη μελέτη με υπέρηχους ασθενών μονάδας εντατικής θεραπείας.” 2019. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Dagadaki O. Πρώιμη διάγνωση εν τω βάθει φλεβικής θρόμβωσης: πρωτοκολλοποιημένη μελέτη με υπέρηχους ασθενών μονάδας εντατικής θεραπείας. [Internet] [Thesis]. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ); 2019. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/45441.
Dagadaki O. Πρώιμη διάγνωση εν τω βάθει φλεβικής θρόμβωσης: πρωτοκολλοποιημένη μελέτη με υπέρηχους ασθενών μονάδας εντατικής θεραπείας. [Thesis]. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (ΕΚΠΑ); 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/45441
University of Oulu
27. Tetri, S. (Sami). Factors affecting outcome after primary intracerebral hemorrhage.
Degree: 2009, University of Oulu
URL: http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514291067
► Abstract Primary intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) accounts for 10–15% of all strokes. ICH is the most devastating subtype of stroke with high mortality and morbidity; 35–52%… (more)
▼ Abstract Primary intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) accounts for 10–15% of all strokes. ICH is the most devastating subtype of stroke with high mortality and morbidity; 35–52% of patients die during the first month after the bleeding. The most important risk factor for onset of ICH is hypertension, especially untreated hypertension, and the well-known predictors for early death after ICH are a low GCS (i.e low level of consciousness) score on admission, the size of the hematoma, and the precence of intraventricular blood. Preceeding use of anticoagulants and advanced age further impair the outcome. Thromboembolic complications after the bleed are common and difficult to prevent. The present cohort study included all patients (n = 453) with verified primary ICH admitted to the stroke unit of Oulu University Hospital within a period of 11 years (from January 1993 to January 2004). The impacts of previous diseases, including ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation on admission, hypertension, and diabetes as well as of high admission blood pressure and plasma glucose levels on outcome were evaluated. The safety and efficacy of prevention of venous thromboembolism with enoxaparin, a low molecular weight heparin (LMWH), was investigated. In a population-based study covering a 3-year period, the risk factors and seasonal distribution of ICH were investigated. Independent of the severity of bleeding and patients’ age, ischemic heart disease, diabetes, and atrial fibrillation were found to be significant predictors for early death after ICH. High blood pressure on admission predicted early death, whereas elevated admission plasma glucose level was associated with the severity of bleeding but was not an independent predictor for early death. Treatment with enoxaparin (20 mg per day subcutaneously) for prevention of venous thromboembolism was not associated with increased mortality but did not seem to prevent venous thromboembolic complications. The incidence of ICH was higher during the winter among patients with untreated hypertension but not in normotensive and treated hypertensive patients.
Subjects/Keywords: cardiac disease; cerebral hemorrhage; diabetes; hypertension; outcome; risk factors; season; venous thromboembolism
Tetri, S. (. (2009). Factors affecting outcome after primary intracerebral hemorrhage . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oulu. Retrieved from http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514291067
Tetri, S (Sami). “Factors affecting outcome after primary intracerebral hemorrhage.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oulu. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514291067.
Tetri, S (Sami). “Factors affecting outcome after primary intracerebral hemorrhage.” 2009. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Tetri S(. Factors affecting outcome after primary intracerebral hemorrhage. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oulu; 2009. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514291067.
Tetri S(. Factors affecting outcome after primary intracerebral hemorrhage. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oulu; 2009. Available from: http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789514291067
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
28. Ronilson Gonçalves Rocha. Prevenção de riscos de tromboembolismo venoso: estratégias para redução da morbimortalidade.
Degree: PhD, 2014, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
URL: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6649 ;
► Estudo prospectivo com abordagem quantitativa envolvendo 3 grupos distintos de sujeitos. Grupo 1 constituído por 56 pacientes avaliados para o risco de tromboembolismo venoso (TEV)… (more)
▼ Estudo prospectivo com abordagem quantitativa envolvendo 3 grupos distintos de sujeitos. Grupo 1 constituído por 56 pacientes avaliados para o risco de tromboembolismo venoso (TEV) em um acompanhamento de 30 meses para verificar os desfechos morte, reinternação e profilaxia de TEV. Grupo 2 constituído por 50 enfermeiros assistenciais que responderam questionários sobre TEV, com o propósito de avaliar seus conhecimentos sobre os riscos e profilaxia dessa doença em pacientes clínicos internados. Grupo 3 constituído por 100 enfermeiros assistenciais que responderam questionários similares aos respondidos pelo grupo 2, antes e após treinamento sobre profilaxia de TEV. O objetivo geral foi verificar o grau de conhecimento de enfermeiros sobre tromboembolismo venoso considerando sua inserção no processo de prevenção de riscos; Os objetivos específicos foram: propor e implantar uma estratégia de treinamento para capacitação de enfermeiros no rastreamento de riscos de TEV em pacientes internados; verificar o impacto do treinamento sobre TEV no conhecimento dos enfermeiros para identificação de fatores de risco dessa doença; descrever os desfechos relacionados à TEV em pacientes internados por mais de 24 horas em um hospital quaternário num seguimento de 30 meses. No grupo 1 identificou-se que o evento TEV apresenta alta mortalidade 63,6% para pacientes que não receberam profilaxia. Identificou-se também que a maioria 89,2% desses sujeitos é acompanhada de seus médicos, 53,6% passaram por reinternações e 28,6% continuam usando alguma profilaxia para TEV. No grupo 2 verificou-se que os profissionais não sabem identificar corretamente os fatores de risco para TEV, havendo grande déficit de conhecimento em relação aos fatores de risco e profilaxia da doença, pois 90% da amostra não consegue apontar mais que 5 fatores de risco para TEV considerando-se 24 fatores contemplados por consensos internacionais, demonstrando um grau de conhecimento insuficiente pela utilização de uma escala intervalar proposta nesse estudo. No grupo 3, assim como identificado no grupo 2, houve similaridade no déficit de conhecimento, pois 100% não conseguiram apontar mais que 4 fatores de risco para a doença. Identificou-se que a realização de um treinamento sobre profilaxia de TEV para esses enfermeiros apresenta alto impacto em relação ao grau de retenção de informações sobre TEV, sendo uma ação facilmente replicável para profissionais de instituições hospitalares. Concluiu-se que o uso de um algoritmo/protocolo de avaliação voltado para rastreamento de riscos de TEV por enfermeiros representa uma ferramenta importante no processo de rastreamento e prevenção dessa doença em pacientes clínicos, como proposto nesse estudo, pois nos resultados demonstrou-se que 97% dos enfermeiros do grupo 3 não conhecem qualquer tipo de protocolo relacionado a prevenção de riscos de TEV. Os sujeitos apresentaram excelente nível de conhecimento sobre meios de profilaxia mecânica, mas identificou-se que a maioria 63% nunca deu orientações sobre a profilaxia enquanto… Advisors/Committee Members: Nébia Maria Almeida de Figueiredo, Iraci dos Santos, Denilson Campos de Albuquerque, Rogério Lopes Rufino Alves.
Subjects/Keywords: ENFERMAGEM; Enfermagem; Tromboembolismo venoso; Fatores de risco; Nursing; Venous thromboembolism; Risk factors
Rocha, R. G. (2014). Prevenção de riscos de tromboembolismo venoso: estratégias para redução da morbimortalidade . (Doctoral Dissertation). Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Retrieved from http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6649 ;
Rocha, Ronilson Gonçalves. “Prevenção de riscos de tromboembolismo venoso: estratégias para redução da morbimortalidade.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6649 ;.
Rocha, Ronilson Gonçalves. “Prevenção de riscos de tromboembolismo venoso: estratégias para redução da morbimortalidade.” 2014. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Rocha RG. Prevenção de riscos de tromboembolismo venoso: estratégias para redução da morbimortalidade. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; 2014. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6649 ;.
Rocha RG. Prevenção de riscos de tromboembolismo venoso: estratégias para redução da morbimortalidade. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; 2014. Available from: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=6649 ;
29. Bond, Alison Mary. Risk Stratification for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Can thromboprophylaxis be safely restricted to limit costs?.
The objectives of this study were to estimate and compare the economic and clinical outcomes of using risk assessment models (RAMs) to support decision-making on… (more)
The objectives of this study were to estimate and compare the economic and clinical outcomes of using risk assessment models (RAMs) to support decision-making on thromboprophylaxis compared to the current standard of practice (SOP) in hospitalized medical patients at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (SHSC). The Padua Prediction Score (PPS) and the Improve Risk Score (IRS), were applied to 199 general internal medicine (GIM) patients during three samples of one-week GIM admissions at SHSC. The predicted rate of hospital associated venous thromboembolism (HA-VTE) and the quality of life in GIM patients at SHSC identified as low risk of HA-VTE, was not significantly different after one year with RAM-directed thromboprophylaxis compared to SOP-directed thromboprophylaxis. Additionally, the use of RAMs had a significant potential annual cost savings of more than $200,000. Prospective evaluation is required to establish the feasibility and usability of RAMs and the safety of reducing the rate of thromboprophylaxis.
Advisors/Committee Members: Walker, Scott E, Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Subjects/Keywords: Cost; Deep Vein Thrombosis; Medical Patients; Pulmonary Embolism; Risk Assessment Models; Venous Thromboembolism; 0572
Bond, A. M. (2018). Risk Stratification for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Can thromboprophylaxis be safely restricted to limit costs? . (Masters Thesis). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/91375
Bond, Alison Mary. “Risk Stratification for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Can thromboprophylaxis be safely restricted to limit costs?.” 2018. Masters Thesis, University of Toronto. Accessed July 19, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/91375.
Bond, Alison Mary. “Risk Stratification for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Can thromboprophylaxis be safely restricted to limit costs?.” 2018. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Bond AM. Risk Stratification for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Can thromboprophylaxis be safely restricted to limit costs?. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Toronto; 2018. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/91375.
Bond AM. Risk Stratification for Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Can thromboprophylaxis be safely restricted to limit costs?. [Masters Thesis]. University of Toronto; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/91375
30. Martinez, Marissa Rose. The Role of Fibrin Clot Properties and Fibrinogen Nitration in the Pathology of Venous Thromboembolism.
Degree: 2012, University of Pennsylvania
URL: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/670
► Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) together comprise the disease state of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Thrombi in the veins of the lower extremities… (more)
▼ Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) together comprise the disease state of venous thromboembolism (VTE). Thrombi in the veins of the lower extremities (DVT) can embolize, resulting in complete or partial occlusion of circulation through the pulmonary vasculature (PE). Despite a common etiology between DVT and PE, the cause of embolization remains mostly unknown. Research indicates that fibrin clot structure and functional properties are altered in VTE compared to healthy controls. Whether these properties differ between DVT and PE subjects remains to be determined, and may underscore possible mechanisms of embolization. Inflammation and oxidant production are involved in the pathogenesis of VTE. However, biomarkers documenting these pathways in humans are lacking. Elevated levels of nitrated fibrinogen have been documented during inflammatory and oxidative challenges and may serve as a functional biomarker in VTE. Differences in fibrin clot structure and functional properties between DVT and PE, as well as the role of nitrated fibrinogen as a biomarker of VTE were evaluated in the plasma of subjects presenting with symptoms of VTE to the emergency department at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Plasma fibrin clots derived from PE subjects showed increased establishment of viscoelastic properties and faster lysis time compared with DVT. The rate and extent of factor XIIIa crosslinking of fibrin were similar between DVT and PE. Clots from PE subjects showed decreased fiber density and no differences in fiber bundling. Together these data suggests that fibrin fibers are formed faster in PE subjects, possibly resulting in earlier lysis, which may lead to instability and embolization. Nitrated fibrinogen levels were elevated in VTE positive compared to VTE negative subjects, with no differences in fibrinogen concentration. Subjects in the highest quartile of nitrated fibrinogen had an increased risk of VTE compared with the lowest quartile. This risk persisted after univariate adjustment for advanced age, active cancer, and recent surgery, but not after multivariate adjustment for all variables. Thus, nitrated fibrinogen is an oxidative risk marker in VTE, providing a novel mechanistic link between oxidant production, inflammation, and VTE.
Subjects/Keywords: Deep vein thrombosis; Fibrinogen; Nitration; Pulmonary embolism; Venous thromboembolism; Biochemistry; Molecular Biology
Martinez, M. R. (2012). The Role of Fibrin Clot Properties and Fibrinogen Nitration in the Pathology of Venous Thromboembolism. (Thesis). University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/670
Martinez, Marissa Rose. “The Role of Fibrin Clot Properties and Fibrinogen Nitration in the Pathology of Venous Thromboembolism.” 2012. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania. Accessed July 19, 2019. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/670.
Martinez, Marissa Rose. “The Role of Fibrin Clot Properties and Fibrinogen Nitration in the Pathology of Venous Thromboembolism.” 2012. Web. 19 Jul 2019.
Martinez MR. The Role of Fibrin Clot Properties and Fibrinogen Nitration in the Pathology of Venous Thromboembolism. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Pennsylvania; 2012. [cited 2019 Jul 19]. Available from: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/670.
Martinez MR. The Role of Fibrin Clot Properties and Fibrinogen Nitration in the Pathology of Venous Thromboembolism. [Thesis]. University of Pennsylvania; 2012. Available from: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/670
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Category Archives: BMW
BMW unveils “extremely fast” concept electric motorcycle
Posted on May 13, 2018 by OffTheClothBoff Gallery Reply
BMW Motorrad Concept Link’ uses electric battery packs, and even features a reverse gear
Has a touchscreen dashboard, and can be paired with a new smart motorcycles jacket that can change settings on the bike with a swipe on its sleeve
Can integrate with online calenders to automatically set destinations, and project directions onto windscreen
BMW has super-charged the race towards zero-emission biking by unveiling its latest concept electric motorcycle.
The BMW Motorrad Concept Link uses radical electric battery packs stored in its base, features a reverse gear to make parking easier, and a seat that adjusts itself to suit each rider’s bottom.
Its touchscreen dashboard can even be connected to the rider’s online calendar so it always knows where it needs to go every time it is started.
BMW claims the concept is “extremely fast” though designers have not yet revealed stats to back up the claim.
Concept electric motorcycle could kickstart new era of biking
The German automotive superpower hopes the concept could kickstart a new era of motorcycle design.
BMW Motorrad’s Alexander Buckan said: “The technical realities of electric drive – such as the flat energy packs in the underfloor and the compact drive on the rear wheel – allowed us to create a highly distinctive design which shapes a new segment.
“The resulting expressive power of the vehicle is absolutely new for BMW Motorrad and breaks with all conventional viewing patterns.”
BMW says the concept blends fast acceleration and easy handling.
Due to its low overall height, getting on is easy too, from the side or even from the back.
A reverse gear ensures that it is easy to manoeuvre, making it ideal to park in tight city spaces.
Electric motorcycle projects data onto windshield
Instead of a classic instrument cluster, speed, navigation and battery information is projected onto the windshield directly in the rider’s field of vision.
Secondary information is displayed on a panel below the handlebars.
Programmable, touch-enabled buttons on the handlebars allow the rider to access functions without having to loosen grip.
The concept is the latest in a series of vehicles designed by BMW to showcase the future of transport.
BMW M9 Concept
Posted on July 18, 2017 by OffTheClothBoff Gallery Reply
;f you are looking for a futuristic looking and very powerful car, then your quest ends with BMW M9 Concept. This car would have it all, from extravagant exterior design and very comfortable and well-equipped interior design to great engine performances and specifications. The BMW M9 will be a worthy addition to its already existing fleet of cars.
ENGINE OF BMW M9
It is expected to come with either the V12 or V8 motor. Since the car is light, the pace has been increased and it also has an effective motor.
To give this car an edge over the others, the velocity has been increased to 320 kph. The predecessors had a motor of 4395 cc, but this model is expected to be more superior in this regard.
EXTERIOR OF 2016 BMW M9
BMW M9 would have a very peculiar exterior design which would have only two doors and LED headlights and taillights. The car would also have somewhat combined futuristic and extravagant exterior design.
In addition to having only two doors, BMW M9 would also have only one seat row for the maximum of two passengers. The manufacturer would use leather materials for seats and upholstery thus making the car very comfortable. Also, the manufacturer would most surely use a lot of modern technologies, such as Bluetooth and SB connectivity.
The “extremely fast” BMW concept electric motorcycle
Posted on June 5, 2017 by OffTheClothBoff Gallery Reply
BMW is set to bring back the 8 Series as a luxury GT
BMW is set to bring back the 8 Series as a luxury GT to rival the Mercedes S-Class Coupe
The BMW 8 Series is set to return with an all new model to rival the Mercedes S-Class Coupe as a large, luxurious grand tourer.
Trademark applications with the global intellectual property regulators reveal that BMW has already started the basic prep work. In late March it applied to strengthen its control of a string of 8 Series-related names, including 825, 830, 835, 850, 845, 860 and M850.
A BMW insider has confirmed to Auto Express that the move was not merely a case of the company ring-fencing the badges for possible future use, and that it reflects an imminent rejig of BMW’s GT line-up. BMW’s decision to bring back the 8 Series is due to a change of heart on what the 6 Series needs to be. The Bavarian manufacturer has not considered a rival to the Porsche 911 sports car before, preferring its 6 Series to be a larger, heavier GT. But the arrival of the Mercedes-AMG GT in the same market as the Porsche 911 has signalled new conflict between the big German premium brands, and now BMW wants the 6 Series to be its contender, as a more agile two-seater sports car. It’s that move which will make room for the new 8 Series.
BMW has also applied to register M8, signalling the potential arrival of a production car that was originally considered back in the early nineties. BMW created prototypes with a V12 engine (the motor that would ultimately end up in the McLaren F1) in the original 8 Series, but canned the project due to a perceived lack of customer demand.
The new M8 would give BMW a rival for the likes of the Mercedes-AMG S63 Coupe. M division would probably choose to use the twin-turbocharged 4.4-litre V8 engine, producing around 450bhp, allowing the 7 Series’ V12 engine to be used in high-designation ‘regular’ 8 Series models like the 850 and M860.
BMW M4, FAN OR FAIL ?
Posted on October 27, 2015 by OffTheClothBoff Gallery Reply
Not every sports car is made for drag racing. Some are just better than others. But sometimes it’s the driver who’s not doing something right. And we think that may be the case regarding this particular drag race. In fact, it’s kind of unusual. Why’s that? Let’s look at the contenders: aPorsche Cayman GT4, Lexus RC F, BMW i8, and a BMW M4. About all they have in common is that they’re all coupes. Not going into their specific differences, what turned out to be interesting here was why the M4 was quite a bit slower than the other three?
What we know is that its Launch Controls system was shut off to keep things fair; the GT4, for example, doesn’t have LC. But the M4 is already fast without the electronics, so what was the problem here. We think it’s driver error.
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Individualism, Collectivism, and Authoritarianism in Seven Societies (2003)
Genkova, Petia
Building on Hofstede's finding that individualism and social hierarchy are incompatible at the societal level, the authors examined the relationship between individualism-collectivism and orientations toward authority at the individual level. In Study 1, authoritarianism was related to three measures of collectivism but unrelated to three measures of individualism in a U.S. sample (N = 382). Study 2 used Triandis's horizontal-vertical individualism-collectivism framework in samples from Bulgaria, Japan, New Zealand, Germany, Poland, Canada, and the United States (total N = 1,018). Both at the individual level and the societal level of analysis, authoritarianism was correlated with vertical individualism and vertical collectivism but unrelated to horizontal collectivism. Horizontal individualism was unrelated to authoritarianism except in post-Communist societies whose recent history presumably made salient the incompatibility between state authority and self-determination.
Individualismus/Kollektivismus und hilfreiches Verhalten : interkultureller Vergleich zwischen Bulgarien und Deutschland (2003)
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Tag Archives: music
Many of us noticed there was an obvious inspiration for this week’s Doctor Who, in which a miniaturised vessel made a fantastic voyage on an emergency medical mission – yes, Placebo’s 2001 video for their song Special K of course. Let’s take a look at the similarities…
We establish the base where all the exciting thrills & spills will take place
Our elegant, ambiguous hero strides through gleaming corridors on the way to his mission
Going down!
Mandatory dramatic plummeting…
…and someone’s always got to end up in the gloop.
How did THIS get in here?! And now I can’t seem to delete it!! Bloody WordPress!!!
Anyway, I bet Vod likes a bit of Placebo.
The brain’s a bit pinky
Hush hush, eye to eye
Posted in Shot for Shot
Tagged brian molko, clara oswald, danny pink, doctor who, music, peter capaldi, placebo, samuel anderson, telly, zawe ashton
1. JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF DISCO
You might think the title and themes of this episode are based on Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth. But think on – there wasn’t a dinosaur or giant mushroom in sight. Donna Summer’s Journey to the Center of Your Heart is a much more relevant text. “Baby, wanna travel ‘cross the borders of your mind!” sang the first lady of disco to a thumping Moroder & Bellotte beat. In an episode featuring another song-based climax it was a shame the salvage vessel wasn’t blasting out Donna instead of whatever horrible old racket that was.
2. JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF UK GARAGE
And I can hardly believe they went to the trouble of getting an original member of So Solid Crew on board the TARDIS (Ashley Walters, looking as fit as a butcher’s dog, still), setting a big countdown clock running, and AT NO POINT have anyone say there were twenty-one seconds to go. Never mind the pronunciation of obscure planets, this is the sort of thing they should be picking up in production meetings. “Did you see me in the console room? Oh, no! Operate the blue switches? Oh, no!”
3. JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF STAR TREK: VOYAGER
It was a bold move to take a plot device as roundly and universally mocked as a reset button is, make it into an actual physical button and then have it as the hard-won climax to the episode. Still, this sort of thing isn’t unheard of in TARDIS-based shenanigans. Who can forget 1996’s Temporal Orbit? It was a leading brand of Time Lord chewing gum with magical time-reversing properties.
4. JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF w6
I used to work in Hammersmith in the 90s, in a building called Thames Tower which had previously been the home of British Oxygen and which housed the original TARDIS swimming pool, seen in The Invasion of Time, in its basement. Reader, I used to swim in that pool and I’m very proud. This modern one looks rubbish – what are the changing arrangements? Seems like you have to drop your towel in the vestibule, and there’s no Cup-a-Soup machine either. You can say what you like about the 1978 TARDIS chase, at least the swimming pool had roundels.
5. JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF CARMINE SEEPAGE
Roundels aren’t the only thing missing in the new-fangled TARDIS. We were promised a nostalgic tour through the programme’s history as Clara penetrated deep into the heart of the Ship. But where was Nyssa’s curly straw? Or Adric’s star chart? No sign of Tegan’s lipstick on the walls as that bloody time-cot was dug out of storage either. On a serious note though, never give a teenage boy black sheets. What were they thinking?
Tagged adric, ashley walters, clara oswald, doctor who, donna summer, jules verne, matt smith, music, nyssa, so solid crew, tegan, telly
Secret protest: How the OTHER nine songs in the Top Ten are subversive critiques of Margaret Thatcher
Posted on April 14, 2013 | Leave a comment
Britain is in turmoil! Following Thatcher’s death, a campaign to get Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead from The Wizard of Oz into the charts has been successful, but the BBC say they won’t play it in full on the Chart Show. So on the one hand you might reasonably have concerns about censorship, free speech and your right of dissent, but on the other you’ve got, well, Munchkin fury.
Now, Radio 1 censors songs all the time, generally for swearing or explicit sexual references. The radio edit of Azealia Banks’ 212 sounded like she’d borrowed Norman Collier’s microphone. But to ban a song that you might otherwise hear any Sunday afternoon on Radio 2, because of the motives of the people buying it, is some complicated new level of doublethink.
So if YOU were looking forward to listening to the Top Ten today and enjoying a silent gloat while Dorothy and the Munchkins established that the person in question was not only merely, but really most sincerely dead, what are your options now the BBC have spoiled your fun? What subversive messages are hidden in the rest of the songs in the Top Ten?
“I don’t know about you but I’m feeling 22!” sings Taylor Swift in 22. In a song recorded in 2012 that can only mean one thing – Taylor is positioning herself as the embodiment of the post-Thatcher political scene following the Iron Lady’s resignation in 1990. “We’re happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time… it’s miserable and magical!” Well it’s certainly been a mixed bag.
In When I Was Your Man, Bruno Mars blames himself for Thatcher’s fall from grace. “My pride, my ego, my needs and my selfish ways caused a good strong woman like you to walk out my life.” But there’s a double-edged criticism implicit in his dirge. It was Thatcher’s own ideology that encouraged Bruno to selfishly individuate! And now they’re both paying the price.
The Saturdays critique the right-to-buy legislation introduced in Thatcher’s first term in What About Us? – “I’ve been watching and waiting, why don’t you give it or take it?” And Pitbull continues the socio-economic analysis in Feel This Moment – “Ask for money and get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice.” He goes on to tell us how he’s made billions in the free market before delivering the killer blow: “I’m far from cheap, I break down companies with all my peeps” – a clear dig at the Big Idea of denationalisation.
Justin Timberlake addresses the notion of individualism as he sings to his own reflection in Mirrors. “My mirror staring back at me, I couldn’t get any bigger with anyone else beside of me,” he croons in a savage satire of Thatcher’s belief that there’s no such thing as society. And what could be a more pointed attack on capitalist federalism than Nelly‘s Hey Porsche? “I don’t need nobody’s permission” he laughs, in a song that deliberately confuses material pleasure with personal objectification to devastating effect.
Pompeii sees Bastille take the Roman city as a metaphor for the ruined industrial communities of the North. The dark clouds that roll in over the hills in the song are the coal dust of the abandoned pits. “Many days fell away with nothing to show… We were caught up and lost in all of our vices.” We’re warned of the cyclical nature of history too, that Thatcherism hasn’t died with the lady herself – “If you close your eyes, does it almost feel like you’ve been here before? How am I gonna be an optimist about this?” Sad. Pink takes a similar view of a nation’s devastated manufacturing base in Just Give Me A Reason but with a more hopeful tone – “Tear ducts and rust, I’ll fix it for us. We’re collecting dust but our love’s enough.”
And so to the song at Number One (according to the midweeks published on 10th April of course, as are all the songs I’ve mentioned – your actual chart experience may vary). Duke Dumont‘s Need U (100%) featuring A*M*E might seem like just another feelgood dance track. But it’s all there in the video. A man visits hospital with a tape recorder – of exactly the sort you could have bought in 1979 when Thatcher came to power – lodged in his stomach. We see him leave without receiving any treatment and learn that the video takes place in America. The implications are obvious – in a country with no NHS, medical help is the privilege of the few. Our hero tries to go about his life regardless, but constant misery ensues as his condition causes everyone around him to suffer potentially fatal choreomania. Eventually, exhausted, we see him undergoing an operation – but at what cost?! If Thatcher’s policies have led inexorably to the current dismantling of a free health service then are we all doomed to dance until we die? Enjoy tonight’s Chart Show!
Tagged a*m*e, azealia banks, bastille, bruno mars, death, duke dumont, justin timberlake, margaret thatcher, music, nelly, pink, pitbull, taylor swift, the saturdays, the wizard of oz
“My automatic melancholy” – the all-too-short pop career of Lara Croft
At the height of the Tomb Raider games’ success, and before a film had been made, a succession of actresses, models and promo girls — including a young Katie Price — queued up to be the real life face of Lara Croft. And somehow one of them, Rhona Mitra, ended up making an in-character pop CD with Dave Stewart.
Come Alive came out on EMI in 1998, between Tomb Raider II (the one with the Venice and sunken ship levels) and Tomb Raider III (the one where Lara keeps getting run over by a tube train). It only went on general release in France, and there’s so little about it on the web you’d think someone had tried to quietly erase it from pop history.
Most of the songs have a post-Madchester, indie dance vibe with flashes of guitar, landing on a sound somewhere between Sneaker Pimps and Chumbawamba. There’s even the occasional ragga toast. So far so 90s. But what about the subject matter?
Brilliantly, Lara sings about her own fictionality, her longings for a physical life and her confusing symbiotic relationship with you the gamer. In this way it very much picks up the metafictional baton from the ending of Tomb Raider II, in which Lara, about to undress for the shower, magnificently breaks the fourth wall by turning to face you and shooting you dead, saying “Don’t you think you’ve seen enough?”
Lead single Getting Naked follows the same template, teasing nudity while admonishing the listener “I know you want to be my lover boy, but I’ve got a lot of things going on.” And the balance between titillation and domination continues in songs like Beautiful Day where every seductive “Tell me all your fantasies and I’ll tell you mine,” is set off by a stern “I’ll do what I want to.”
The prospect of physical love rears its head in Really Real in which a somewhat listless Lara breathes “I’m real! Really real! Just like you!” While in the next song, Feel Myself, she does what any of us would after making the transition from digitised form and proceeds to “Feel myself for the first time,” complete with some little panting noises. Charmingly, she describes her self exploration in terms any gamer will understand, giggling “Moved on to level 2!”
The album’s themes peak on title track Come Alive, in which Lara muses on her life as a pixellated puppet. “I see myself up on a wall,” it opens over some lovely downbeat electro. She goes on to consider her “fated path,” reflecting “all the walls that I was climbing, all the time that I spent falling… and all was fine when I was drowning.”
The whole thing’s a triumph. A very odd triumph, to be sure, but then those are my favourite sorts. It’s a rare album that lets you hear an iconic video game character sing come-hither lyrics about “fish and chips in Streatham” and “a pint of lager & lime” and somehow carry it off, but this is the one. In case you hadn’t noticed, I spend every other post on this blog deliberately muddling fictional things and real ones (with hilarious consequences etc etc), so once in a while it’s nice to find a piece of pop culture that’s managed it all on its own. And is real — really real.
Tagged dave stewart, gaming, lara croft, metafiction, music, tomb raider
Kanye West and the Diamonds of Doom
Review of Kanye West at the Hammersmith Apollo, 23rd February 2013
Pic by baradar85
Poor old Kanye. An acclaimed music career that shows no sign of slowing down, a blossoming relationship with a little babby on the way, and so very much money that he can afford to slag off corporate sponsorship now – and yet he’s still so alone and so cold. At least, that’s what we must assume when we see him, a solitary figure in white pacing a vast, bare stage like an aggrieved polar bear while projections of icebergs and blizzards and cold seas play behind him.
It’s beautiful, minimal staging. He was surrounded by writhing, body-painted women the last time I saw him, but today there’s no-one to get in his way as he lopes around his empty square in what could be either a strait-jacket or a mummy’s wrap. Sometimes he covers his face completely, singing from behind a bird mask or, most alarmingly, a sewn-up ski mask completely encrusted in diamonds – the close-ups on the giant screens make him a disturbing, abstract monster. Meanwhile on the backing track Shirley Bassey’s diamond fetish gives way to Rihanna’s and some sort of circle is closed.
Kanye’s own favourite numbers seem to be his robo-despair epics, and he milks Say You Will and Runaway for all they’re worth and more. But the dreamlike atmosphere persists even as he makes his way through the big hits, and the design choices are thrilling throughout. When the all-white-everything section has gone as far as it can go – with an outbreak of snowfall over the stalls while Kanye mopes in an icy forest – the Apollo erupts in sudden, dazzling colour for Flashing Lights and All Of The Lights. It’s a well-timed middle section that offers some relief before the icebergs return to finish him off and Kanye trudges away towards them. Poor old thing.
Tagged diamonds, kanye, mummies, music, polar bears, rihanna, shirley bassey
Martine McCutcheon’s Perfect Cheese Moment
The other week in ITV’s Midsomer Murders, poor Martine McCutcheon was killed to death by massive cheeses. How cruelly ironic that Martine, who’s spent so many years tirelessly promoting Activia yoghurt on British screens, should meet such a vicious dairy-related death. Here’s that perfect moment in full, soundtracked at last by her biggest hit.
Tagged cheese, death, martine mccutcheon, midsomer murders, music, telly
Celebrity Families: The Carters
International superstar Beyoncé has caused quite a stir by adopting her husband Shawn’s name for her forthcoming “The Mrs Carter Show” tour. We asked her about the reasoning behind it.
“It’s a powerful name. It’s a name of power,” Beyoncé tells me as we sit over cocktails and a plate of scotch eggs in a pop-up artisan cafe on the deck of a Dover-Calais P&O ferry that’s moored in uptown Beverly Hills. “For a good few years while Jay [Shawn’s “rap name” is Jay-Z] was growing up, his mum [TV’s Lynda Carter] was Wonder Woman every week on tv and his dad [Jimmy] was president of the USA. And that’s exactly the sort of drive and ambition my solo career encapsulates.”
It must have been quite a childhood, I say. “Hell yes!” spurts Beyoncé, waving at the waiter for prawns. “He used to get teased something awful at school. ‘Show us your magic bracelets!’ ‘Negotiate a peace with Cuba!’ All that sort of thing.” She sighs wistfully.
Just then we’re joined by Beyoncé’s aunt Helena [Bonham Carter, best known for her role as Don Johnson’s love interest in Miami Vice] – they briefly brush each others’ hair in greeting before settling down to tell me more. “When I had my kids they were always over at Lynda’s wanting to play with Jay-Z,” confides Helena in an outrageous Cockney accent. “My eldest Dwayne [Carter, best known today as musician Lil Wayne] has quite the rivalry with Jay these days but they were so friendly once. They used to do raps together over Sunday lunch!” Did they have beef, I ask. “No, chicken usually,” says Helena.
Beyoncé’s thoughts turn to the lost members of the Carter clan, as a regretful breeze ripples across her perfect skin. “Jay hardly sees anything of his uncle Chris these days,” she moues. “He went a bit wild with his conspiracy theories about twenty years ago, it was all ‘the truth is out there’ and ‘trust no-one’ and ‘aliens are in the jelly’ and that sort of thing. He and his kids the Backstreet-Carters have been shut off ever since. Poor Nick and poor little Aaron.”
“They wanted it that way,” spits Helena bitterly.
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Changing change while it changes: The rise of disruptive military thinking (Part 3 of 3)
December 7, 2018 December 18, 2018 Over The Horizon 1 Comment Adaptation, civilian design, complexity, critical thinking, decision making, decisions, Design, domain, human-centric design, IBM, industrial design, innovation, Israel, methodology, military design, military education, military philosophy, planning, swarm theory, systemic operational design (SOD)
Editors Note: This article is last in a 3-Part series we will be reposting this week. We felt that it continued to drive the conversation forward and we wanted to revisit the topic for our readers. As always, please comment, share, like, and retweet anything you feel continues to advance the conversation.
Militaries need to introduce design education as early as possible; cadets and privates need to experience design.
Approximate reading time: 19 minutes
An interview with Ben Zweibelson
Original Editor’s Note: Mr. John Sarubbi, Product Marketing Management Leader at IBM, sat down to interview Ben about his upcoming keynote speaking engagement at IBM’s Stream Processing Application Declarative Engine (SPADE) Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 18-21, 2018. SPADE is IBM’s invite-only, signature event for defense and intelligence. This year’s theme is Re-Thinking Defense and Security in the Digital Age. This interview is broken into a 3-part series. Part one, published last week, focused on the definition and utility of military design. In part two, published earlier this week, Ben explains the evolution and application of military design as well as how it relates to other forms of design such as industry design and civilian design. In this final part of the interview Ben further dives into the vitality of military design for planning military operations that enable a commander to achieve a decisive advantage over an adversary.
In some of your published design work, you discuss design and swarm theory. How does swarm theory impact the military?
Our way of doing everything in the military is largely fixated on a centralized hierarchy of authority, control, and execution. Anything that threatens that or challenges it is immediately discarded or assimilated. Assimilation means that something new is pulled into the existing system and anything disruptive or offensive to the legacy architecture is discarded. This even includes design, as in 2009 the U.S. Army essentially assimilated select elements of the original Israeli Systemic Operational Design (SOD) and discarded those elements that it found disagreeable. The U.S. Army’s version of military design, now termed “Army Design Methodology (ADM)” ended up being entirely assimilated into reductionist linear planning for analytic optimization, with some random design terms sprinkled across it to produce a fanciful take on design. With ADM, the centralized military hierarchy dominated and won, dismantling and basically consuming the innovation and reflective practice qualities of the first design movement. The reason I raise this is because the larger military community has done the same with swarm theory.
We have assimilated swarm techniques but only if they obey the hierarchy. Nearly everything written for military audiences including an extensive study by the RAND Corporation took swarm theory and nested it in a technical or tactical sense while maintaining the centralized military hierarchy of command and control at operational and strategic levels. For example, an infantry platoon can disperse a swarm of drones on the battlefield, but they still work for that platoon leader, who works for the company commander, who works for the battalion commander, and so on and so forth. The technical level of drone employment may end up using local conditions and swarm maneuvers, but there is no fractal relationship beyond that technical or even tactical application. The swarm becomes a technical trick for the centralized legacy system to rely upon and maintain original forms.
In contrast, we can look at things like the Arab Spring where rival organizations used social media to help fuel crowd-source activities. Similarly, we can see that much of the eco-terrorist Earth Liberation Front’s activities appear to be swarm-like, relying on local conditions and decentralized actors seeking shared goals despite no strong chain of command in decision-making. In a civilian example, Zappos.com has transformed their entire management structure to meet their strategy of using a decentralized form instead of the legacy system of centralized hierarchical management. It’s not just one technical section or one area piloting this type of management, they put into motion a systemic transformation across their entire company. When you look at how militaries are exploring swarm, they do not have any interest in doing these sorts of things…just ways to harness swarm theory to maintain other dominant power structures and decision-making methodologies. There is no fractal aspect, merely assimilation into the centralized hierarchy structure.
The swarm is employed as a tool, but the manner in which the military operates isn’t adapted to achieve the full potential of swarm capabilities, at least not currently. From a design and innovation perspective, we should look to disrupt the centralized structure of the military and look at how we can actually operate in a decentralized or swarm way? By disrupt, I mean identify a useful and systemic way to employ organizational change which achieves an advantage. The challenge is that ‘disruption’ in military circles tends to get negative labels, particularly if sacred concepts and institutional rituals, which are nested in an organization’s identity, are threatened. One area in particular is the codification of our military decision-making models that are enshrined into military doctrine. Changing these methodologies goes against generations of institutional military processes, dating back into the influences of Industrial Design and schools of management like Taylorism. General officers today are just like general officers of hundreds of years ago, they are the general, and they are the top. This is not an attack on senior leadership, it is just a critical reflection on what the military system is designed to produce. There is a paradox in that when a military mechanical system of factory-style categorization moves batches of career groups through a rather rigid career timeline, we end up with the very best of convergent processes. Ideally the most effective of an organization’s freshman year group out-perform their peers and converge. Yet at senior levels, that is when those leaders are expected to ‘diverge’ and innovate ‘outside of the box,’ when likely they are conditioned in the opposite direction. This is also why swarm theory gets assimilated into the centralized hierarchy for military practices, and perhaps why the disruptive qualities of military design are also frequently assimilated into bolt-on additions to the set military planning process.
Do senior military leaders really need design for opening up opportunities for their organization to innovate?
Yes, and once again, this is not an either-or sort of situation. Senior leaders are ideally the top performers that have beaten out all other peers to advance to the top. That means they have consistently been highly successful, but their success is typically that of convergence and legacy system maintenance. After 25-30 years of service, their education and experiences have given them the tools to be CEOs. But, we as an institution have not given them the tools to organize their units as anything other than a centralized hierarchy because that reinforces their command and control. This is because creativity, innovation, and military design as an educational experience has not been featured in most military careers. Further, those that have taken some design education have either done it on their own initiative, or typically at the mid-career level. Meanwhile, civilian design occurs quite early and, in many companies, rather frequently.
And so, returning to the swarm question for a second, swarm is best executed in a decentralized organization. The way Wikipedia operates is an example of such decentralization; the website is based upon local conditions and user content. Aside from advertising, Facebook also operates in a decentralized way. Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t have control over what cat photos get uploaded today but there are going to be a lot of cat photos as well as people arguing over political memes and such. Uber is an example of decentralization in two ways; they use swarm to gain their drivers, and their drivers rely on the swarming of consumers seeking rides. There is an interesting tension between organizations that thrive on swarm activities and those that are predisposed to be quite skeptical or even hostile towards them.
The military is uncomfortable with some of the deeper organizational qualities of swarm (any other alternative to the centralized hierarchical form) because perhaps a general officer, right now on the ground in Syria, is expected to make high level strategic and operational decisions within their command and control. The general makes a decision at the top level, based on information flows from subordinate units at lower levels; the decision is then disseminated down to subordinate units for execution. These are broad statements, but a large majority of activities in military organizations really do follow these organizing forms. Truly implementing swarm applications would require disrupting this traditional and rigid structure. In a swarm organization, the general in the command post would be on the receiving end of information flow, from his subordinates. I do not mean receiving information; I mean reporting up the consequences of their own independent actions without reprisal or even much direction from above, while the top of the pyramid responds and receives instead of directing and controlling.
That is very disconcerting for a variety of reasons. The purpose of design is to question these traditional processes: which ones are valid, and which are part of an institutional resistance to alternatives? In true swarm entities that are also called supra organisms, the ‘queen bee’ does not know what any of the other bees are doing, nor does that information even matter to her. Scout bees, when reconnoitering new potential sites for a new colony, only go to one site while the other scouts only go to their own selected location…yet the entire colony makes a rather complex and highly accurate decision on the new location without any one bee going to more than just one of the choices. And the queen bee has no part in any of it. The bee colony is organized and functions in vastly different ways to our familiar centralized hierarchies.
Going back to the ‘drop your tools’ example, the organization that is unwilling to even consider why it does what it does is unable to drop a tool once it no longer helps…and potentially they will swing that tool around in search of a newer tool that does the same thing. Swarm is getting applied technologically only when it matches a familiar technological tool, and not when it threatens favorite tools of decision-making.
One example is the Anbar Awakening movement in Iraq back in 2005-2008. Subordinate military leaders were innovative and at the same time, they challenged and disrupted what their higher headquarters wanted them to do with respect to the local Sunni militant fighters. They did something differently, and suddenly those innovative military subordinate leaders had significantly less Sunni militia contact. Additionally, they were able to foster small bands of tribes that were willing to cooperate and purge foreign fighters out of the areas. Once they saw success, the larger organization started to pay attention and become less skeptical of diverging from the original strategic aims. Then the general officer at the top of the hierarchy was able to incorporate the innovative methodology into standard practice; “this is what we will all now do.”
The hierarchy once again reestablished itself as the authority, and everyone began implementing similar ‘Sons of Iraq’ techniques that met with initial and widespread success. So, in military activities, innovation breaks with the legacy system, and if successful the legacy form quickly adapts and even assimilates the change…yet frequently the larger legacy form is unable or unwilling to transform too far. The Sons of Iraq movement did not end well; the transition to a Shiite dominated government and efforts for subsequent disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration failed past 2009. In this example we see some design-like qualities followed by non-design activities as well as a resistance to organizational transformation beyond a certain point. I do have the luxury of saying this in hindsight and also as a veteran of that period in Iraq as well. Design does not work as a Silver Bullet, and the iterative aspect of military design requires that military organizations cannot simply bolt on ‘do design’ as step one of a detailed planning process. Design has to occur frequently and become nested in the way the organization makes sense of reality and acts within complex dynamic contexts.
True military design practitioners are interested in finding the barriers that are preventing us from thinking in ways that are different. Design is disruptive, for entirely productive and holistic reasons. Military design looks to not just influence change in the environment, but rather to examine how a military organization thinks about itself within a complex system, to include where the emergence may drift towards next, and how we might be carrying favorite tools that today are helping us, yesterday proved they were valuable, and still tomorrow they may end up being the very things that kill us.
How can military design help disrupt militaries?
Again, I do not mean that design is ‘disruptive’ in a negative way, the disruption must be employed to drive positive change. Everybody has heard the cliché that the military always prepares to win the last war, design is employed to disrupt this cycle. Militaries are quite effective at preparing to win previous wars instead of considering that coming up around the corner is something unlike anything we have previously encountered. We accept that paradox, often implicitly. But at the same time no one had offered a definitive way to think differently and structure organizations to increase divergent thinking, creativity, and innovation for transformation…not until the development of military design methodologies at the very end of the 20th century. Now, we of course have seen many brilliant, innovative, and highly creative military leaders throughout all of recorded human history. It is great to have great ideas, and they are great because they are uncommon and highly valuable, provided that the military is willing to embark on something transformative that is also ‘unproven.’ Remember, the innovators just before they prove their success are usually also called crackpots, mavericks, and madmen. Those that fail end up keeping those negative labels, but for those that succeed and usher in dramatic, dynamic transformation, they are seen as visionaries. People then study them and even establish schools to follow in their wake in the hopes that we might be able to manufacture or reproduce their innovative qualities. Militaries saw this in particular in the aftermath of Napoleon, when professional military academies and formalized military doctrine really took off across Europe and the West. It is great to be lucky enough to have that visionary that shows up in your company or your unit who is the next Napoleon or Bill Gates. So why do we tend to do the same sort of conventional things to foster greater innovation?
When you are talking about all these great thinkers, visionaries, innovators, and mavericks, how do you get the rest of your organization to think akin to them or at least foster the ideal conditions for innovation and creativity to prosper in a military context? Again, this is why military design matters.
That is really the essence of the formal military design education. How do we stimulate innovative thinking in a structured, educational way? How do we implement a culture of design at an institution, to get people to think differently? If we can do that, we can breed the next generation of novel thinkers, whom can experiment and trust in uncertainty. However, in order to really create the best conditions from which might spring not just one, but a general population of military practitioners that think reflectively, that are able to critically reflect beyond the limits of the dominant military paradigm, we cannot simply wait until the random visionary springs up unexpectedly. Nor can we assimilate design into our preferred linear planning methodologies and expect that the mere presence of design vocabulary is sufficient for a military design practitioner to be able to overcome the institutional resistance of the dominant system in order to foster change.
I argue, from a minority position, that militaries need to introduce design education as early as possible…that cadets and privates need to experience design. There are lots of competing tasks and things that privates and lieutenants need, so the amount and depth of that initial design education needs to be carefully considered. However, waiting until officers are at mid-career or even late in their careers to introduce design is problematic. Further, there are so many deep organizational aspects that foster brining design into the detailed linear planning structures, that I fear most military senior leadership is put at an extreme disadvantage by the larger institution. Some leaders are able to do break away from the structure just on pure talent and curiosity, others are lucky enough to receive design education during their career paths, but many are simply denied these concepts and tools entirely. And, their staffs are configured in such a way that design talent is likely not available or misused in ways that they are not even aware of.
So, at what point in the military education or the career progression should design education be offered?
The Australian design researcher Aaron Jackson and I just wrote an article on this topic called Teachers- leave them kids alone: Debating Two Approaches for Design Education in Military Organizations. In this article, Aaron argues that design should not be taught to any military professional until they reach the ripe age of field grade officer, which is mid-career—about the 10-to-15-year mark for a 20-to-30-year career. Most military programs offer design education this way, and I am a direct product of this type of model.
Some military academies, such as the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, The Canadian Armed Forces at the Royal Military Academy at Saint Jean in Montreal are starting to teach some design principles at a preliminary level. The Canadian military academy at Kingston has also begun to provide design education at the cadet and the young officer levels. For non-military, design education, in my own opinion, should be introduced at the youngest level possible. Human-centric design is taught to college students. And design has been taught to kindergartners—the concepts are universal. It’s about thinking differently.
Now, this is not to detract from my co-author and good friend Aaron Jackson’s position in our article, because he does provide some sound arguments that have essentially been adapted by most militaries currently experimenting with design education. Design education is expensive, it requires a commitment to develop military professionals across their entire career path…it cannot be achieved through a five day or three-week block of instruction at one point in an individual’s education. The expectation that a chapter of military doctrine and a step in the planning model is sufficient for an organization to suddenly be more creative and open to divergence and organizational change is simply unrealistic. The interesting thing is that militaries are legendary for career specialization- we identify, recruit, train and specialize people into Special Forces, military lawyers, doctors, even strategists using career designations, selection processes, and extensive schooling. However, there is no military design school. Nor is there a career designator or path for an officer or non-commissioned officer with exceptional design talent to progress in a meaningful and comprehensive manner. Military professionals that ‘do design’ are scattered about and operate akin to perhaps how specialized, self-trained sharpshooters in the 17th and 18th centuries might have ended up in a military force but often were issued a musket and told to march in formation. There are design modules offered in some schools, but there is no school that focuses exclusively on design. Paradoxically, the one thing senior leaders are looking for in their people are the very qualities that design education stimulates- innovation, divergent thinking, creativity, critical reflection, and ability to improvise and adapt.
Which service might be better suited for design thinking?
I would qualify that this is really as a domain question. Is military design, the process, and the effects it might accomplish best expressed through the land domain, the air domain, the maritime domain, space or cyberspace? For civilians unfamiliar with domains, our militaries traditionally categorize and frame complexity using physics-based, engineering friendly and geographically oriented metaphors such as domains. Historically, this reaches back into the origins of naval and land forces. The military denotes a land, maritime, air, and space domains. Most recently they added a cyber domain and potentially a ‘human domain,’ although that is still a hotly contested topic inside of the military. For classical war periods, the land-air-maritime combinations had clear distinctions, and militaries could specialize services directly within these clear domain boundaries. Things are no longer that clear today, particularly with the increased proliferation of social media, technology, globalization, and the rise of alternatives to the traditional nation state form.
The army has traditionally struggled with the most complex environment- that of the land domain. There is something uniquely complex about urban centers, and since humans biologically are land-dwelling creatures, we are most comfortable and have the strongest ties to the land, thus war started and is most commonly conducted with our feet solidly on the ground. At times, we could establish ‘ground’ on the sea, with naval forces waging in a distinct environment that is its own domain. Later, the rise of air machines led to the air and later still a space domain where war could occur or be prevented. In all of these, I happen to have a biased perspective that the land domain continues to be the most challenging of the physical domains, if only because that is where all of the people are.
By the nature of their domain, the Air Force and the Navy can operate in isolation within their respective domain. Aircrafts and naval vessels are more isolated, more controllable, and more predictable…although in warfare there are tremendous challenges in all domains and I do not want to imply that any Service ‘has it easier.’ Yet things have changed over the past hundred years. The lines between domains are blurring. In cyberspace, those lines might not even be discernible, at least not in a physical domain sense…yet our militaries prefer to apply physical domain concepts, language, metaphors, and decision-making methodologies to the cyber domain all the same. If we acknowledge a human domain, things are just as problematic there too.
To date, the land armies have developed most of the design models. Initially, the Israeli Army generated SOD, and subsequently the U.S. Army and the Australian Army implemented their own adaptations. The U.S. Marine Corps followed suite, and arguably they have many land-domain concerns. Over time, military design has crept outwards and other services are developing their version of the concept. However, for me, in terms of where I see the most design development as well as the most complex contexts where a military organization really need design thinking, I see the cyber domain as the next vast frontier.
Every military that has a cyber element must implement design at the highest level possible. Because only in cyberspace do all the domains’ physical limitations disappear. It is completely different. Time and space do not have the same considerations in cyber as they do in the land and maritime domains. The ability to use swarm theory is vastly more sophisticated and intriguing in cyber, and if we were to agree to a ‘human domain,’ this domain blurs the lines between all of the physical domains directly into the cyber medium in a way that military design could greatly appreciate in terms of complexity, multi-domain synthesis, and divergent thinking. However, to do this at the level necessary for a military organization transforming within an emergent complex context, we will need to think quite disruptively about our doctrine, set practices, rituals, language (and the metaphors behind those words), and the deeper paradigms at work that shape our interpretation of reality.
Military design is still quite young in its development, so it really is anyone’s field of opportunity. I expect that as high technology companies such as IBM interact with militaries along these blurred lines and multiple domains where complex challenges cannot be neatly isolated or categorized, both the militaries and those companies will need a common design discipline to communicate and share ideas. It likely cannot be a single industrial design methodology or even a single human-centric design methodology as this complex system exceeds the purposes of those frames. I suspect that some version or evolution of military design, perhaps even a hybrid between industrial, human-centric, and military design might become a common ground for these advanced design engagements.
Ben Zweibelson will be speaking at SPADE 2018, IBM’s invite-only, signature event for defense and intelligence. This year’s theme is Re-Thinking Defense and Security in the Digital Age.
Ben Zweibelson is a retired US Army Infantry officer. He is currently a doctoral student at the Australian National University, and Program Director of Joint Special Operations University, under the U.S. Special Operations Commander (SOCOM).
The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Special Operations Command, the Joint Special Operations University, the United States Government or the Australian National University.
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The largest and most important revolutionary socialist organization in US history, the Communist Party USA was always a minority influence. It reached considerable size and influence, however, during the Great Depression and World War II years when it followed the more open line associated with the term “Popular Front.” In these years communists were much more flexible in their strategies and relations with other groups, though the party remained a hierarchical vanguard organization. It grew from a largely isolated sect dominated by unskilled and unemployed immigrant men in the 1920s to a socially diverse movement of nearly 100,000 based heavily on American born men and women from the working and professional classes by the late 1930s and during World War II, exerting considerable influence in the labor movement and American cultural life. In these years, the Communist Party helped to build the industrial union movement, advanced the cause of African American civil rights, and laid the foundation for the postwar feminist movement. But the party was always prone to abrupt changes in line and vulnerable to attack as a sinister outside force because of its close adherence to Soviet policies and goals. Several factors contributed to its catastrophic decline in the 1950s: the increasingly antagonistic Cold War struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States; an unprecedented attack from employers and government at various levels—criminal cases and imprisonment, deportation, and blacklisting; and within the party itself, a turn back toward a more dogmatic version of Marxism-Leninism and a heightened atmosphere of factional conflict and purges.
Keywords: communism, Popular Front, McCarthyism, Soviet Union, unions, Red Scare
Department of History, University of Illinois
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Tag Archives: France
Why I am not Charlie
Posted on 9 January 2015 by scottlong1980
There is no “but” about what happened at Charlie Hebdo yesterday. Some people published some cartoons, and some other people killed them for it. Words and pictures can be beautiful or vile, pleasing or enraging, inspiring or offensive; but they exist on a different plane from physical violence, whether you want to call that plane spirit or imagination or culture, and to meet them with violence is an offense against the spirit and imagination and culture that distinguish humans. Nothing mitigates this monstrosity. There will be time to analyze why the killers did it, time to parse their backgrounds, their ideologies, their beliefs, time for sociologists and psychologists to add to understanding. There will be explanations, and the explanations will be important, but explanations aren’t the same as excuses. Words don’t kill, they must not be met by killing, and they will not make the killers’ culpability go away.
To abhor what was done to the victims, though, is not the same as to become them. This is true on the simplest level: I cannot occupy someone else’s selfhood, share someone else’s death. This is also true on a moral level: I cannot appropriate the dangers they faced or the suffering they underwent, I cannot colonize their experience, and it is arrogant to make out that I can. It wouldn’t be necessary to say this, except the flood of hashtags and avatars and social-media posturing proclaiming #JeSuisCharlie overwhelms distinctions and elides the point. “We must all try to be Charlie, not just today but every day,” the New Yorker pontificates. What the hell does that mean? In real life, solidarity takes many forms, almost all of them hard. This kind of low-cost, risk-free, E-Z solidarity is only possible in a social-media age, where you can strike a pose and somebody sees it on their timeline for 15 seconds and then they move on and it’s forgotten except for the feeling of accomplishment it gave you. Solidarity is hard because it isn’t about imaginary identifications, it’s about struggling across the canyon of not being someone else: it’s about recognizing, for instance, that somebody died because they were different from you, in what they did or believed or were or wore, not because they were the same. If people who are feeling concrete loss or abstract shock or indignation take comfort in proclaiming a oneness that seems to fill the void, then it serves an emotional end. But these Cartesian credos on Facebook and Twitter — I am Charlie, therefore I am — shouldn’t be mistaken for political acts.
Among the dead at Charlie Hebdo: Deputy chief editor Bernard Maris and cartoonists Georges Wolinski, Jean Cabut (aka Cabu), Stephane Charbonnier, who was also editor-in-chief, and Bernard Verlhac (aka Tignous)
Erasing differences that actually exist seems to be the purpose here: and it’s perhaps appropriate to the Charlie cartoons, which drew their force from a considered contempt for people with the temerity to be different. For the last 36 hours, everybody’s been quoting Voltaire. The same line is all over my several timelines:
From the twitter feed of @thereaIbanksy, January 7
“Those 21 words circling the globe speak louder than gunfire and represent every pen being wielded by an outstretched arm,” an Australian news site says. (Never mind that Voltaire never wrote them; one of his biographers did.) But most people who mouth them don’t mean them. Instead, they’re subtly altering the Voltairean clarion cry: the message today is, I have to agree with what you say, in order to defend it. Why else the insistence that condemning the killings isn’t enough? No: we all have to endorse the cartoons, and not just that, but republish them ourselves. Thus Index on Censorship, a journal that used to oppose censorship but now is in the business of telling people what they can and cannot say, called for all newspapers to reprint the drawings: “We believe that only through solidarity – in showing that we truly defend all those who exercise their right to speak freely – can we defeat those who would use violence to silence free speech.” But is repeating you the same as defending you? And is it really “solidarity” when, instead of engaging across our differences, I just mindlessly parrot what you say?
But no, if you don’t copy the cartoons, you’re colluding with the killers, you’re a coward. Thus the right-wing Daily Caller posted a list of craven media minions of jihad who oppose free speech by not doing as they’re ordered. Punish these censors, till they say what we tell them to!
If you don’t agree with what Charlie Hebdo said, the terrorists win.
You’re not just kowtowing to terrorists with your silence. According to Tarek Fatah, a Canadian columnist with an evident fascist streak, silence is terrorism.
Of course, any Muslim in the West would know that being called “our enemy” is a direct threat; you’ve drawn the go-to-GItmo card. But consider: This idiot thinks he is defending free speech. How? By telling people exactly what they have to say, and menacing the holdouts with treason. The Ministry of Truth has a new office in Toronto.
There’s a perfectly good reason not to republish the cartoons that has nothing to do with cowardice or caution. I refuse to post them because I think they’re racist and offensive. I can support your right to publish something, and still condemn what you publish. I can defend what you say, and still say it’s wrong — isn’t that the point of the quote (that wasn’t) from Voltaire? I can hold that governments shouldn’t imprison Holocaust deniers, but that doesn’t oblige me to deny the Holocaust myself.
It’s true, as Salman Rushdie says, that “Nobody has the right to not be offended.” You should not get to invoke the law to censor or shut down speech just because it insults you or strikes at your pet convictions. You certainly don’t get to kill because you heard something you don’t like. Yet, manhandled by these moments of mass outrage, this truism also morphs into a different kind of claim: That nobody has the right to be offended at all.
I am offended when those already oppressed in a society are deliberately insulted. I don’t want to participate. This crime in Paris does not suspend my political or ethical judgment, or persuade me that scatologically smearing a marginal minority’s identity and beliefs is a reasonable thing to do. Yet this means rejecting the only authorized reaction to the atrocity. Oddly, this peer pressure seems to gear up exclusively where Islam’s involved. When a racist bombed a chapter of a US civil rights organization this week, the media didn’t insist I give to the NAACP in solidarity. When a rabid Islamophobic rightist killed 77 Norwegians in 2011, most of them at a political party’s youth camp, I didn’t notice many #IAmNorway hashtags, or impassioned calls to join the Norwegian Labor Party. But Islam is there for us, it unites us against Islam. Only cowards or traitors turn down membership in the Charlie club.The demand to join, endorse, agree is all about crowding us into a herd where no one is permitted to cavil or condemn: an indifferent mob, where differing from one another is Thoughtcrime, while indifference to the pain of others beyond the pale is compulsory.
We’ve heard a lot about satire in the last couple of days. We’ve heard that satire shouldn’t cause offense because it’s a weapon of the weak: “Satire-writers always point out the foibles and fables of those higher up the food chain.” And we’ve heard that if the satire aims at everybody, those forays into racism, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism can be excused away. Charlie Hebdo “has been a continual celebration of the freedom to make fun of everyone and everything….it practiced a freewheeling, dyspeptic satire without clear ideological lines.” Of course, satire that attacks any and all targets is by definition not just targeting the top of the food chain. “The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges,” Anatole France wrote; satire that wounds both the powerful and the weak does so with different effect. Saying the President of the Republic is a randy satyr is not the same as accusing nameless Muslim immigrants of bestiality. What merely annoys the one may deepen the other’s systematic oppression. To defend satire because it’s indiscriminate is to admit that it discriminates against the defenseless.
Funny little man: Contemporary Danish cartoon of Kierkegaard
Kierkegaard, the greatest satirist of his century, famously recounted his dream: “I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled.” They granted him one wish: “Most honorable contemporaries, I choose one thing — that I may always have the laughter on my side.” Kierkegaard knew what he meant: Children used to laugh and throw stones at him on Copenhagen streets, for his gangling gait and monkey torso. His table-turning fantasy is the truth about satire. It’s an exercise in power. It claims superiority, it aspires to win, and hence it always looms over the weak, in judgment. If it attacks the powerful, that’s because there is appetite underneath its asperity: it wants what they have. As Adorno wrote: “He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. Historically, therefore, satire has for thousands of years, up to Voltaire’s age, preferred to side with the stronger party which could be relied on: with authority.” Irony, he added, “never entirely divested itself of its authoritarian inheritance, its unrebellious malice.”
Satire allies with the self-evident, the Idées reçues, the armory of the strong. It puts itself on the team of the juggernaut future against the endangered past, the successful opinion over the superseded one. Satire has always fed on distaste for minorities, marginal peoples, traditional or fading ways of life. Adorno said: “All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay.”
Funny little man: Voltaire writing
Charlie Hebdo, the New Yorker now claims, “followed in the tradition of Voltaire.” Voltaire stands as the god of satire; any godless Frenchman with a bon mot is measured against him. Everyone remembers his diatribes against the power of the Catholic Church: Écrasez l’Infâme! But what’s often conveniently omitted amid the adulation of his wit is how Voltaire loathed a powerless religion, the outsiders of his own era, the “medieval,” “barbaric” immigrant minority that afflicted Europe: the Jews.
Voltaire’s anti-Semitism was comprehensive. In its contempt for the putatively “primitive,” it anticipates much that is said about Muslims in Europe and the US today. “The Jews never were natural philosophers, nor geometricians, nor astronomers,” Voltaire declared. That would do head Islamophobe Richard Dawkins proud:
The Jews, Voltaire wrote, are “only an ignorant and barbarous people, who have long united the most sordid avarice with the most detestable superstition and the most invincible hatred for every people by whom they are tolerated and enriched.” When some American right-wing yahoo calls Muslims “goatfuckers,” you might think he’s reciting old Appalachian invective. In fact, he’s repeating Voltaire’s jokes about the Jews. “You assert that your mothers had no commerce with he-goats, nor your fathers with she-goats,” Voltaire demanded of them. “But pray, gentlemen, why are you the only people upon earth whose laws have forbidden such commerce? Would any legislator ever have thought of promulgating this extraordinary law if the offence had not been common?”
You are an infamous impostor, Father, but at least you’re circumcised: Voltaire lectures to a priest
Nobody wishes Voltaire had been killed for his slanders. If some indignant Jew or Muslim (he didn’t care for the “Mohammedans” much either) had murdered him mid-career, the whole world would lament the abomination. In his most Judeophobic passages, I can take pleasure in his scalpel phrasing — though even 250 years after, some might find this hard. Still, liking the style doesn’t mean I swallow the message. #JeSuisPasVoltaire. Most of the man’s admirers avoid or veil his anti-Semitism. They know that while his contempt amuses when directed at the potent and impervious Pope, it turns dark and sour when defaming a weak and despised community. Satire can sometimes liberate us, but it is not immune from our prejudices or untainted by our hatreds. It shouldn’t douse our critical capacities; calling something “satire” doesn’t exempt it from judgment. The superiority the satirist claims over the helpless can be both smug and sinister. Last year a former Charlie Hebdo writer, accusing the editors of indulging racism, warned that “The conviction of being a superior being, empowered to look down on ordinary mortals from on high, is the surest way to sabotage your own intellectual defenses.”
Of course, Voltaire didn’t realize that his Jewish victims were weak or powerless. Already, in the 18th century, he saw them as tentacles of a financial conspiracy; his propensity for overspending and getting hopelessly in debt to Jewish moneylenders did a great deal to shape his anti-Semitism. In the same way, Charlie Hebdo and its like never treated Muslim immigrants as individuals, but as agents of some larger force. They weren’t strivers doing the best they could in an unfriendly country, but shorthand for mass religious ignorance, or tribal terrorist fanaticism, or obscene oil wealth. Satire subsumes the human person in an inhuman generalization. The Muslim isn’t just a Muslim, but a symbol of Islam.
Cartoon by Sudanese artist Khalid Albaih, from Aljazeera.com
This is where political Islamists and Islamophobes unite. They cling to agglutinative ideologies; they melt people into a mass; they erase individuals’ attributes and aspirations under a totalizing vision of what identity means. A Muslim is his religion. You can hold every Muslim responsible for what any Muslim does. (And one Danish cartoonist makes all Danes guilty.) So all Muslims have to post #JeSuisCharlie obsessively as penance, or apologize for what all the other billion are up to. Yesterday Aamer Rahman, an Australian comic and social critic, tweeted:
A few hours later he had to add:
This insistence on contagious responsibility, collective guilt, is the flip side of #JeSuisCharlie. It’s #VousÊtesISIS; #VousÊtesAlQaeda. Our solidarity, our ability to melt into a warm mindless oneness and feel we’re doing something, is contingent on your involuntary solidarity, your losing who you claim to be in a menacing mass. We can’t stand together here unless we imagine you together over there in enmity. The antagonists are fake but they’re entangled, inevitable. The language hardens. Geert Wilders, the racist right-wing leader in the Netherlands, said the shootings mean it’s time to “de-Islamize our country.” Nigel Farage, his counterpart in the UK, called Muslims a “fifth column, holding our passports, that hate us.” Juan Cole writes that the Charlie Hebdo attack was “a strategic strike, aiming at polarizing the French and European public” — at “sharpening the contradictions.” The knives are sharpening too, on both sides.
We lose our ability to imagine political solutions when we stop thinking critically, when we let emotional identifications sweep us into factitious substitutes for solidarity and action. We lose our ability to respond to atrocity when we start seeing people not as individuals, but as symbols. Changing avatars on social media is a pathetic distraction from changing realities in society. To combat violence you must look unflinchingly at the concrete inequities and practices that breed it. You won’t stop it with acts of self-styled courage on your computer screen that neither risk nor alter anything. To protect expression that’s endangered you have to engage with the substance of what was said, not deny it. That means attempting dialogue with those who peacefully condemn or disagree, not trying to shame them into silence. Nothing is quick, nothing is easy. No solidarity is secure. I support free speech. I oppose all censors. I abhor the killings. I mourn the dead. I am not Charlie.
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To begin again: From Daniel Bensaïd
Driven to bed by the recurrence of an old condition, I spent the last few days reading the 2004 memoirs of Daniel Bensaïd: Une Lente Impatience, published last year in English as “An Impatient Life.” Probably you haven’t heard of the author, unless you are as quirky as I am, in which case seek help. Bensaïd was a French Marxist activist, a revolutionary, and a major thinker of our post- (but not post enough) modern Left.
The son of a Sephardic Jew from Algeria, Bensaïd grew up in Toulouse. When he was fifteen years old and a student, the Paris police repeatedly indulged in horrific abuses against Algerian communities. In October 1961, the forces of order commanded by the authentic fascist Maurice Papon – who was convicted nearly forty years later for his Vichy-era collaboration with the Nazis – massacred up to 200 demonstrators for Algerian independence. They dumped many wounded in the Seine to drown. They slaughtered nine more at a protest the following February. The blood and the indifference — the killings remained unnoticed and unknown — galvanized Bensaïd into politics.
October 17, 1961: arrested pro-Algerian demonstrators huddle on the floor of Paris police headquarters, where, a little later, many would be shot in the courtyard.
Bensaïd joined the Communist Party’s youth wing, but, repelled by its reigning Stalinism, he quickly became the center of a left opposition within the ranks. In 1966 he helped found the Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire, a dissident group formally breaking with party orthodoxy. In 1968 he was, with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a leading impetus behind the Mouvement du 22 Mars – the students who ignited the May 1968 revolt that almost toppled de Gaulle. In subsequent years he supported leftist movements in the global South, especially Latin America, where he worked with groups in Argentina and Colombia through the 1970s and 1980s. In Brazil, he assisted in building the Workers Party, which now governs the country. As a teacher, philosopher, and theorist for the Fourth International, he contended in the 1990s that Southern social movements were vital players in revitalizing the Left. For the last 16 years before his death, Bensaïd lived with HIV and AIDS; complications from the treatments finally killed him, at 63, in 2010.
These days are bad days. In Europe, a racist right feeds off the energy of anti-austerity, anti-bureaucratic resistance: the men who massacred Algerians in 1961 can applaud their children sitting in the European Parliament. In Egypt, where I am now, a murderous general staged his own election landslide, and aims to extinguish the last embers of the fading Revolution. In the United States … but why even think about that? A US gay blogger wrote yesterday that “critical theory” is destroying the gay movement by making trans people and brown people hate their benefactors, gay white men. The last is only one small idiocy; but Bensaid’s book, as I’ve been immersed in it this week, has become a site and not just a set of words amid all the stupidities and losses, a closed place where beleaguered hope can take refuge, a shelter where theory can pay its proper respects to practice. “There is no human activity that does not involve the intervention of thought,” he wrote. “The non-intellectual does not exist.”
So I want to share a few passages from his memoirs. Find the whole book here.
I hesitated for a long while before writing this book … [But] I experienced the feeling that we belonged to a landscape threatened with disappearance. We had all grown up in the historical sequence opened by the Great War and the Russian Revolution, on a continent that was now almost submerged. Our formative years – the 1950s, 60s, and 70s – were as remote, for the new minds of the new century, as the Belle Époque, the Dreyfus affair, or the heroic deeds of Teruel and Guadalajara had been to us. Can the light from our extinct stars still travel on? Is there still time to rescue this tradition from the conformism that always threatens?
Student protester beaten and arrested by police, Paris, May 1968
To transmit, but what? And how? It is the heirs who decide the inheritance. They make the selection, and are more faithful to it in infidelity than in the bigotry of memorial. For fidelity can itself become a banally conservative routine, preventing one from being astonished by the present. How not to mistrust, anyway, that virtuous fidelity which betrayal accompanies like a shadow? Does one always know to what or to whom one is really faithful?
Fidelity has a past. It is never sure of having a future. Many friends, tired no doubt of often having had to press against the grain of history, have made peace with the intolerable order of things. How melancholy was the disenchanted fidelity of Flaubert’s ‘48ers in A Sentimental Education! “Remain faithful to what you were” means being faithful to the fissure of event and the moment of truth, where what is invisible usually reveals itself. It does not mean giving in to the command of the winners, surrendering to their victory, entering their ranks. As opposed to a dogged attachment to a faded past, it means “being faithful to the rendezvous”—whether one of love, politics, or history.
Woman holding flag in crowd during general strike demonstration, Paris, May 1968: by Jean-Pierre Ray
We have sometimes deceived ourselves, perhaps even often, and on many things. But at least we did not deceive ourselves about either the struggle or the choice of enemy.
Thirty years after independence, Algeria was in the grips of civil war. The war of liberation in Indochina took a bad turn, with the butchery in Cambodia and the conflicts between peoples who had proclaimed themselves brothers. The humanist socialism that Che dreamed of seems to have evaporated. And yet? Is this sufficient reason to go over to the winning side, arms and baggage, and enroll in the imperial crusades of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld?
The “dispersal of meaning” in no way justifies such rejections and rallyings. Even before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union, Jean-Christophe Bailly wrote about the 1960s:
Revolution changed its home base, its continent, according to political colour, but it came from outside, and had the irrational virtue of an emotion tied to something distant that had to be brought into being. An emotional movement, no doubt, even if it was armed with theories, and lent more to the actual combatants than they could return. Today the tone is one of mockery, even pride. People conceal the fact that they waved flags and shouted names, or else they laugh themselves sick. There was undoubtedly an immense amount of illusion – but if there had not been, there would not have been that movement, that leap, the active convergence of all those rejections, and would we not then have covered ourselves with shame, quite incomparable with the mistakes that we may have committed in the running fire of support actions?
This is my position too. The planet-wide demonstrations of 15 February 2003 against the imperialist war were a new struggle against the shame there would have been in doing nothing. Without seeking here any positive hero, which is certainly for the best: neither Bin Laden nor Saddam Hussein were champions of a new internationalism.
Duty performed, or useless service? As long as one claims the right to start again, the last word is never said. And one always commences from the middle, as Gilles Deleuze maintains. Neither a clean slate nor a white page: “It is the future of the past, as it were, that is in question.”
Student demonstrator confronting riot police, Paris, May 1968
Eternity does not exist. So it is necessary to wager on the “non-inevitable share of becoming” inscribed “in this general faculty of surpassing that takes varying forms, in dream, imagination, and desire” … The notion of commitment clumsily evokes this logical wager on the uncertain. A secular, everyday wager, launched anew every day.
This wager, unavoidable as long as the necessary and the possible remain in disagreement, is made by countless people across the world, however discreetly. The Polish dissident Karol Modzelewski, when asked one day for the secret of his perseverance, despite disappointments and disillusions, simply replied: “Loyalty to persons unknown.” There are always, beyond gregarious membership and exclusive identity, these elective affinities, these molecular loyalties, this hidden community of sharing, this minuscule conspiracy and discreet conjuration whose “secret name,” for Heine, was communism, transmitted from one person to another. Despite the infamies committed in its name, it remains the most pertinent word, the word most freighted with memory, the most precise and most apt to name the historic issues of the present time.
On 11 July 1977, at seven in the evening, Roberto MacLean was murdered in Barranquilla, on the doorstep of his house. An almost everyday occurrence: in Colombia, thousands of political executions take place every year. MacLean was black and a revolutionary. He was thirty-nine years old, and had been a political militant since the age of fourteen. He led the civic movement in his town. For more than ten years, he lived every day with the imminence of violent death.
Bensaid (on the left) marches with Alain Krivine at the funeral of Pierre Overney, a Maoist militant killed by a security guard at the Renault Billancourt factory in Boulogne in February 1972
A digression? In fact, nothing could be more pertinent. MacLean is a kind of emblematic representative of those unknowns to whom we are tied by an irredeemable debt.
I have no religious sense of redemptive suffering. I have never conceived my commitments as asceticism or reparation. I have never taken vows of intellectual poverty or chastity. As a young Communist, I took an immediate dislike to the bureaucratic bigotry of the Stalinist priests and its Maoist counterpart. The young red guards in their French version, hymning the thoughts of the Great Helmsman, were odious to me – these little monks who gave their person to the Cause (of the people or the proletariat). The Cause? It never occurred to me to sacrifice to such ventriloquous idols. Political militancy for me is the opposite of a sad passion. A joyous experience, despite its bad moments. My party, like that of Heine, is “the party of flowers and nightingales.”
During the gloomy 1980s, we stuck to our course under the satisfied condescension of the various “exes,” who had given up on everything but themselves. In a tone of ironic compassion, behind which sarcasm visibly lurked, they would ask: “Still a militant, then, old chap … ?” As if we were a disappearing species, the last Mohicans of a condemned tribe. As if we had lost our time and wasted our talents, instead of climbing the ladder of a successful career garlanded with laurels.
In the next decade, there was a change of air, even if it didn’t exactly turn scarlet. The tone had changed. The arrogance of the “winners” was seized with doubt and far more muted. They could see that we had avoided, in a bad time of restoration and counter-reform, a grotesque shipwreck on “the terrible sea of action without purpose.”
No, we hadn’t wasted our time. We rubbed shoulders with many indispensable unknowns – hundreds and thousands of MacLeans. We experienced wonderful friendships, and resurrecting shocks propitious for the rejuvenation of hearts and souls. Of course, we had more evenings of defeat than triumphant mornings. But we put behind us that Last Judgment of sinister memory. And, by dint of patience, we won the precious right to begin again.
When strategic directions are confused or erased, it is necessary to return to the essential: what it is that makes the world as it is unacceptable and makes it impossible to resign oneself to the blind force of things. Its explosive mixture of partial rationalization and growing global irrationality. The disproportion and disarray of a deranged world. This is why the world still has to be changed, and still more profoundly and more urgently than we had imagined forty years ago. Any doubt bears on the possibility of succeeding, not on the necessity of trying ….
Paris, 1968, at a mass meeting held by Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire: from the left, Ernest Mandel, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Henri Weber, and Bensaïd
Politics is an art of decision, and implies constructing a power. By establishing the exception as norm, it resolves a critical situation. For a new right is never deducible by genealogy from an old right, without rupture or discontinuity. It comes about by the mediation of force.
How to act in such a way that this force is not reduced to arbitrary brutality? Between two opposing rights, a decision has to be made. “Choosing your camp” means deciding. And deciding means a certain sacrifice of complexity, of a good number of possibilities, rather like amputating a virtual part of oneself. The real, after all, what is called “actually existing,” is a great cemetery of possibilities. …
There is no ultimate certainty on which to base judgment. We are embarked, as the subtle Pascal put it. It is impossible to escape the tough duty of deciding.
So we have to wager.
Max Weber defined politics as the vocation of the man who, when the world seems too stupid or too petty to hope to change it, does not collapse and remains able to say “however” and “despite everything.”
What exactly is the politics on which we embarked forty years ago? Contemptuously defying the orthodox tradition, we happily proclaimed that “everything is political.” Everything is quite a lot, indeed too much. Everything? To a certain extent, and up to a certain point. If we want to avoid politics becoming despotic and totalitarian by devouring everything else, then that exact extent and precise point are decisive. Another register, another temporal regime: you cannot legislate on the Oedipus complex or on sexual orientation as you can on the civil service or social security.
Prague demonstration on the first anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, 21 August,1969, by Gilles Caron: © Fondation Gilles Caron
Politics is said to be in crisis, struck by impotence and threatened with disappearing. Hannah Arendt was already worried that it would disappear completely from the world. The statisation of the social, the confusion between right and might, is one form of this menace. Another form is the crushing of the public space between the wheels of economic constraint and those of a culpabilising moralism: this is the danger of a “soft,” market totalitarianism. …
To rescue politics from these threats of disappearance, it has to be conceived anew, as the site of deliberation and decision where different spaces and rhythms combine. Those of the economy, of information, of ecology and of law are no longer in tune with one another. We have therefore to abandon the mirage of a politically homogeneous space and time, and learn to conceive the sites and moments of a future politics. Their articulation will determine the ability to open perspectives both spatial (territorial and local) and temporal (of memory and expectation), without which depoliticized politics degenerates into the management of a shrunken present, without either past or future.
Protest at rue Saint-Jacques, Paris, 6 May 1968, by Gilles Caron:
© Fondation Gilles Caron
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Algerian holidays
Posted on 7 October 2011 by scottlong1980
This video comes from Abu Nawas, the semi-underground LGBT group in Algeria. They write:
We consider the 10th of October a very important date in Algeria since [for] four years, it honours the national anniversary that stands for defending and legitimizing LGBTIQ rights … Abu Nawas is faithful to that date and we present it each year for this unique struggle of rights. Our dream is to have the Algerian society to legitimize our existence and our equal rights, but our current reality faces the two penalty articles 333 & 338 of the Algerian Penal and Criminal law, that criminalize homosexuality and all acts that are relevant to it.
This year, like every year, we are celebrating for the 5th time on a row our national day for LGBTIQ rights as a decision of an actual manifestation to our hopes to confirm our existence and self determination. It is the right of each person to live his\her differences and orientations and with total freedom. …
Today, “Abu Nawas” association calls for solidarity under the slogan: Together To Make Life Better, this step goes along with the logic of the revolutions in the Arab World … Like every year, we are asking you and each person to do a symbolic gesture that shows his\her belief, his\her belonging and support to our struggle. Light a candle on Monday October tenth around eight in the evening, to be the light for all those who suffered in the past or are still suffering this moment because of his\her difference.
To be clear, then, this is a “national anniversary” they have made up. Last year they explained the significance of the date: October 10 was the birthdate of Selim I, the first Ottoman Sultan to proclaim himself Caliph, over five centuries ago. He also wrote homoerotic poetry.
Thus, we chose the October 10 for its historical and religious symbolism, to maintain our Arab Muslim identity. We do not follow a particular wave, not a Western model. We do not believe in the logic of mimicry and dependency, in which our opponents accuse us of in many cases. They are ashamed of this subject which is taboo, so completely degrade its value to the level of worthless phenomenon; a minority which no need to talk about.
I can’t comment on the historical rightness of claiming Selim (sobriquet “The Grim”): is he the kind of imaginary progenitor one wants, or another J. Edgar Hoover? And the ritual folding-of-the-rainbow-flag in the video is the kind of thing that would (will) drive Joseph Massad crazy. Like the synthetic national holiday itself, they are symbols intruding into a regime of symbols: an attempt to insert one’s self and demands into a historical narrative and a national space, respectively.
Both story and space, in Algeria’s case, have been scarred in the past few decades by violent exclusions.
As it happens, this “holiday” comes exactly one week before another charged date. October 17 is the fiftieth anniversary of the massacre of up to 200 Algerians in Paris. In 1961, French police — under the orders of the prefect, Vichy collaborator Maurice Papon — attacked a peaceful pro-FLN demonstration. Some protestors were taken to police headquarters and shot; others, tortured to death in a stadium; still others, beaten and drowned in the Seine. The French government covered up the killings, claiming only two had been shot — though bodies turned up along the river’s banks for weeks after. Only 37 years later did it admit the crime.
There have been plenty of Algerians massacred on Algerian soil since then: secularists and feminists by Islamists, Islamists and other civilians by government death squads. The question of who belongs in a divided and contested space has again and again taken the accents of life and death. One can’t blame colonial violence simply or unequivocally for the cycle of violence that followed. But French colonialism in Algeria was a regime of particularly brutal exclusion: the effective exclusion of all Algerians from the national space (the whole country was, remember, turned into a department of France) was simply reinforced, or rewritten in blood, by the Paris massacre, which expunged them from the colonial metropole itself. The colonial system was the sufficient cause for the brutalities of revolution. It was not the cause but the necessary condition for the brutalities that followed, in a horrible delayed reaction, decades after.
There’s no link between the makeshift October 10 commemoration, and the monstrous memory of October 17. Putting them in explicit parallel would only enrage many of the partisans of the latter. Still, the unfinished post-colonial project in Algeria (as in so much of the rest of the tiers monde) is one of building a society capable of genuine inclusion — neither striated into in-group and outcast, nor integrated in a fake patriarchal hierarchy of enforced togetherness. The challenge has only been imperfectly admitted, much less met. If one can wish for anything upon an ad-hoc holiday, it might be this: let October 10, for those who know about it, be a moment both of remembering and of imagining new possibilites of belonging; for the sake of those living, and for the murdered and unmourned.
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Engineers building hard-working mining robot
by Steven Siceloff, NASA
The RASSOR robot climbs a hill during recent testing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA
(Phys.org)—After decades of designing and operating robots full of scientific gear to study other worlds, NASA is working on a prototype that leaves the delicate instruments at home in exchange for a sturdy pair of diggers and the reliability and strength to work all day, every day for years.
Think of it as a blue collar robot.
Dubbed RASSOR, for Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot and pronounced "razor," the autonomous machine is far from space-ready, but the earliest design has shown engineers the broad strokes of what their lunar soil excavator needs in order to operate reliably.
"We were surprised at what we could do with it," said Rachel Cox, a Kennedy Space Center engineer on the RASSOR team.
The primary challenge for any digging robot operating off Earth is that they have to be light and small enough to fly on a rocket, but heavy enough to operate in gravity lower than that of Earth.
"The lighter you make your robot, the more difficult it is to do this excavating," said A.J. Nick, an engineer on the RASSOR team.
RASSOR tackles this problem by using digging bucket drums at each end of the robot's body that rotate in opposite directions, giving enough traction on one end to let the opposite side dig into the soil.
The team built a weight off-loading harness that simulated working the rover in the moon's 1/6th gravity field.
"We proved that if you engage one bucket, it pulls itself but when you lower the other bucket and rotate it, once they both catch in, it starts digging," Nick said.
With a pair of drums positioned on arms, the RASSOR can take on a number of different shapes to accomplish its work. Credit: NASA
Another secret of the drum, inspired by a previous Lockheed Martin design, is the staggered shallow scoops that shave the soil a bit at a time rather than scoop large chunks of it all at once, the way bulldozers do on Earth.
A concept mission for RASSOR would have a 2000 pound payload in addition to the lander, which would be about the size of the Phoenix lander NASA sent to Mars. The RASSOR is expected to weigh about 100 pounds. The remaining payload would be used to process the lunar soil delivered by RASSOR.
The RASSOR looks like a small tank chassis with a drum at either end, each attached with arms. The drums are perhaps the robot's most innovative feature. Because they are mounted on moving arms, they can act almost as legs letting the robot step and climb over obstacles.
The team calls such moves "acrobatics." They point out that the robot can safely drive off the lander and right itself, flip itself over to get unstuck from fine soil and lift the whole body off the ground to let its treads run smoothly to remove built up soil. RASSOR is designed to easily make itself into a Z-shaped position to drop its soil collection into the hopper.
The RASSOR can climb over a large obstacle, such as a boulder on the moon. Engineers on Earth used a stepping stool to challenge the robot. Credit: NASA
With the drums positioned above the main body of the robot, it stands about 2 1/2 feet tall.
The robot is designed to skim lunar soil and dump it into a device that would pull water and ice out of the dirt and turn their chemicals into rocket fuel or breathing air for astronauts working on the surface. The device would be part of the lander that carries the RASSOR to the moon's surface. So the robot would be the feeder for a lunar resource processing plant, a level of industry never before tried anywhere besides Earth.
Producing water and fuel from the lunar soil would save the tremendous expense of launching the supplies from Earth, since 90 percent of a rocket's mass normally consists of propellant, which can be made on the moon.
"This has been kind of the dream, the mission they gear this around," Nick said.
The concept could work on Mars, too, since its soil also is suspected of holding large amounts of water ice.
"There are some areas at the poles where they think there's a lot of ice, so you'd be digging in ice," Nick said. "There's other areas where the water is actually 30 centimeters down so you actually have to dig down 30 centimeters and take off the top and that depth is really where you want to start collecting water ice."
But in order to provide enough material to the production platform to create usable amounts of resources, the RASSOR would need to operate about 16 hours a day for five years. It would drive five times faster than the Mars Curiosity rover's top speed of 4 centimeters per second, then shave the moon's surface with a pair of rotating drums and return to the resource processing plant with some 40 pounds of lunar soil for processing.
"Right now, we just want to make sure nothing in our design precludes it from doing that," said Jason Schuler, one of the engineers on the RASSOR project.
Devising a robot for such demands called for numerous innovations, and the team says it has at least one major decision to make before it begins construction of the second generation RASSOR prototype: keep going with tracks like those that tanks use, or switch to wheels.
The tracks showed some flaws in recent testing, mostly relating to the pebbles and sand particles clogging the gears and making the track slip off. The group tried out RASSOR on several surfaces at Kennedy, including the crushed river rock dug up from the crawlerway. The rock, even though pulverized by the gigantic crawlers, is not a great substitute for lunar soil, the engineers said, but as long as the robot handles that matter well, they say they know it will manage whatever the moon soil offers.
"The mobility was definitely a challenge," Schuler said. "You can't take for granted that it's going to work like it does on grass or concrete or even on sand."
Part of the problem, the engineers said, might be the rubber material the tracks are made of, but a lunar version of the robot would use a different material, possibly metallic. For example, the lunar rover the astronauts drove on the surface used wheels made of stainless steel springs rather than rubber.
"We are studying if we want to invest the time and make a more robust track system or if we want to go to wheels," Cox said.
A 25-foot-square area has been cleared in part of the engineers' workshop to make room for a large area of imitation lunar soil that will allow the robot to be tested in material close to what it will face on the moon.
The team already is designing RASSOR 2, a prototype that would be much closer to what NASA could launch in the future. It's expected to begin testing in early 2014.
NASA Team Demonstrates Robot Technology For Moon Exploration
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I would have gone for an (laser/thermal) ablation approach. It's slower, but you have no parts in contact with the surface you are mining - so you have no chance of your robot either getting stuck or the tools wearing out.
I doubt a rasping/digging robot can keep going for years on an asteroid. Especially since you never know what kind of hard substance you're going to hit. Find a small pocket of diamond hardness and your robot is broken.
Here on earth, construction and mining will become automated. Robots will soon begin mining and sorting through the garbage mountains surrounding our cities, sorting, reclaiming, and reaping great profits.
It should be far more economical to reclaim than to start from scratch, especially when it can be done by robots.
Robots can be designed to deal with things like this. Mark II.
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At last, NASA shows something actually useful and functioning piece of a new kind of mission.
@antialias: How would your ablation approach collect material for resource extraction?
How would your ablation approach collect material for resource extraction?
Vaporize, and centrifuge to separate.
Alternatively collect the melted runoff (which would need less energy but would necessitate contact to the object being mined. Still it would be a method that isn't prone to damage).
In general mechanical devices are faster and more energy efficient than the use of chemicals or raw energy for comminutions, which is the first step in separating the components of a massive object for further processing.
Agrafek
Here on earth, construction and mining will become automated. Robots will soon begin mining...
Its about 10 years already we use robots in mining. Seriously this is nothing new. Its even funny that NASA wants to develop something that is already there. But mining companies are simply not willing to share technologies.
The engineerig solutions on Earth aren't very applicable because they require lubricants and hydraulics (something you want to avoid in space because there are no service stations for refills and they also tend to freeze a lot)
Also on Eath you have (significant) gravity which is used implicitly to keep the mining machines steady and the flow of mined material controlled.
In space you have to look to different solutions. It's not much use using fast, rotary scoops when the tangential velocity of the scoops already exceeds the velocity needed to achieve (or leave) orbit.
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Sex toys all the buzz at Vegas tech show
by Glenn Chapman
The adult film group Naughty America offered an augmented reality experience in a room tucked in the back of the CES show floor at the Las Vegas Convention Center
From the printing press and the VCR to virtual reality sex, adult entertainment has always been a major catalyst driving innovation and reshaping technology for the benefit of the porn pioneer.
And for the thousands of tech nerds at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, that means the intelligent toasters and AI vacuum cleaners are having to make room for the sex toys of the future.
Among the innovations at this year's get-together, run by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), are an augmented strip club complete with virtual pole dancers and a "personal massager" you can operate from your smart watch.
The market for sex products such as vibrators and lubricant is projected to grow to $37.2 billion globally by the year 2022, according to British sex toy retailer MysteryVibe.
"It's not strange to want a more satisfying sex life, and there's nothing wrong with you if you need technology to help you achieve that," the company's co-founder Stephanie Alys told AFP.
The firm was at CES to show off a product designed for the discerning gentleman—a snug, collar-like device named "Tenuto" which, in musical notation, refers to holding on slightly longer than you normally would.
Meanwhile startup OhMiBod was showing off a vibrator operated via an app on Apple smart watches.
The less uninhibited, or those on sufficiently noisy public transport, can simply turn it up or down by yelling at an Alexa-style voice-activated assistant.
'Mind-blowing'
Naughty America's "Strip Club" taps into capabilities on smartphones or tablets to let people overlay virtual male or female stripper holograms on the world around them.
"It's mind-blowing," Naughty America chief executive Andreas Hronopoulos told AFP. "You can bring a full stripper into a room, on a pole, and she is there. No tipping necessary."
Once a virtual performer is anchored in place, viewers can move around them as though the dancer were actually there.
Organizers of the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show said they took back an innovation award from a sexual stimulator because there was no category for sex toys
A virtual reality option lets people use the headgear to visit faux strip joints from a first-person perspective.
"I think of this more as a leisure product, where magazines are going to go—you sit back, relax, drop the holograms in place and play with them," Hronopoulos said.
The adult entertainment industry has a history of boldly pursuing new technologies that promise to improve their products or profits, taking credit for everything from e-commerce, streaming video and webcams to cable TV and subtitles.
"I think they can teach the (tech) industry a few things," Gartner principal analyst Tuong Nguyen told AFP.
With the technology developing so quickly, one challenge for an industry used to marketing family-friendly gadgets is how far into the sometimes sticky world of adult entertainment it is prepared to wade.
A robotic, hands-free vibrator named Ose that uses micro-robotic technology to mimic the sensation of a human mouth won a CES Innovation Award this year.
But it had the honor stripped and found itself controversially banned from the exhibition floor after it was deemed to have broken the rules.
It might not be clear to everyone why a nude pole-dancer is deemed more acceptable than a high-tech vibrator, but the CTA said the Ose, made by the startup Lora DiCarlo, "does not fit into any of our existing product categories" and thus should not have been eligible.
"Society needs to drop the taboo around sex and sexuality—it's a part of life and health that absolutely should be part of mainstream discourse," Lora DiCarlo founder Lora Haddock said in an open letter to the CTA.
"You never know how technology can be used, the future of healthcare might well be in the patent for a sex toy."
Douglas Layman, a general partner for the partnership backing Lora DiCarlo, said in a statement the startup was taking aim at a market that is poised to boom.
"Society is changing to accept a broader discussion about sexual health, leading to explosive growth for sex tech products in the consumer market," he said.
US gadget love forecast to grow despite trust issues
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Wisdom comes with age, so it’s no surprise that Woods have grown more sage in the twelve years since they formed, expanding from sylvan drum circles into increasingly elaborate, transcendent psychedelia. The title track from their upcoming album Love Is Love (the follow-up to last year’s City Sun Eater in the River of Light) is a salve for the frequent dread of these times—specifically, the post-election anguish the band has cited as the LP’s primary inspiration. “Love Is Love” is a catchy slacker-funk exercise, unencumbered by overthinking. Choppy guitar stabs à la Chic collide with the usual sweeping strumming, building up the frisson before the earworm chorus kicks in. The track may be a simple balm, but it’s a potent one.
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